selectionapi

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

Import: @rtorcato/browser-common/selectionapi

📖 MDN: Selection

Browser support

API	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	iOS Safari	Baseline
Selection	✅ 1+	✅ 12+	✅ 1+	✅ 1.3+	✅ 1+	Widely available
Window.getSelection	✅ 1+	✅ 12+	✅ 1+	✅ 1+	✅ 1+	Widely available

✅ supported · ◐ partial · ❌ not supported · [n] see note. Generated from MDN browser-compat-data and web-features. caniuse: Selection · Window.getSelection

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.