selecting

A library that allows you to access the text selected by the user.

Instalation

To install Selecting, execute:

  npm install selecting

Or Bower too:

  bower install selecting

Or simply pick up the file from src directory.

Supported Browsers

Google Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer 9.0+
Safari
Opera
iOS
Android

How to use?

Selecting doesn't depend on jQuery, Zepto or any other library to work. You need just to include it at the end of your HTML code:

  <script src="selecting.js"></script>

Then you can call window.selecting function passing two parameters: an DOM element (jQuery object or NodeList) to listen to and a callback function that receive a Selection object by parameter. For example:

  window.selecting($('.container'), function(selector) {
    // Properties
    selector.text; // The selected text
    selector.wordCount; // The number of words selected
  });

Example

See a simple example.

Contributors


@evandrolg	@felquis	@gibatronic