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selectionapi

Read, clear, and set text selection via the Selection API.

Import: @rtorcato/browser-common/selectionapi

📖 MDN: Selection

Example​

import {
  isSelectionApiAvailable,
  getSelectedText,
  clearSelection,
  selectElementText,
} from '@rtorcato/browser-common/selectionapi'

if (isSelectionApiAvailable()) {
  const text = getSelectedText()
  clearSelection()
  selectElementText(document.querySelector('#code')!)
}

Exports​

  • isSelectionApiAvailable() — feature check
  • getSelection() — the current Selection object, or null
  • getSelectedText() — the currently selected text, or ''
  • clearSelection() — clears the current selection
  • selectElementText(element) — selects the text content of an element

See the API reference for full signatures.