get outter HTML from selected text

[3_of_8]

I guess you're talking about JavaScript.

In JavaScript, there are several possibilities, depending on the specific browser.

The Mozilla/Firefox solution looks like this:

Code:

    var selstart=txtarea.selectionStart;
    var selend=txtarea.selectionEnd;
    if (selstart<selend) {
      selection=txtarea.value.substring(selstart, selend);
    } else {
      selection="";
    }

And this seems to work in most of the other browsers:

Code:

selection=document.selection.createRange().text;