Thanks for the link. This is pretty nice. Is there a special javascript even I could capture to get the user's selection?
On Apr 13, 12:46 pm, "Andy Matthews" <li...@commadelimited.com> wrote: > 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.
