Look into the functionality on the New York Times story pages: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/world/asia/14thai.html?_r=1&hp
Highlight any block of text inside the story, and you'll get a litle popup question mark icon which links to a search of that string in the NYT database. Pretty handy actually. -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ihomest...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 11:36 AM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] capture user's selection on a html page Hi, There is an onselect event for javascript which allows you to capture user selected text in text input or textarea box. Is there a way to capture user's selection anywhere on the html page? I know several javascript applications which allow users to select elements on a html page and allow you to copy paste your selected html data into other places. Would appreciate if anyone points me to some references on how this is implemented, especially how in Jquery. Thanks.
