get-selection-more

Get text and context sentence from window.getSelection()

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import getSelectionMore from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/get-selection-more';
</script>

README

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APIs

/**
 * Returns the selected text
 */
function getText(win?: Window): string
function getTextFromSelection(selection: Selection | null, win?: Window): string
/**
 * Returns the paragraph containing the selection text.
 */
function getParagraph(win?: Window): string
function getParagraphFromSelection(selection: Selection | null): string
/**
 * Returns the sentence containing the selection text.
 */
function getSentence(win?: Window): string
function getSentenceFromSelection(selection: Selection | null): string

Optionally pass window of other frame to get selection within that frame.

Usage

import { getText, getParagraph, getSentence } from 'get-selection-more'

document.addEventListener('selectionchange', () => {
  console.log(getText(), getParagraph(), getSentence())
})

Or load the UMD module directly which exposes getSelectionMore global.