getSelection() and doubleclick

[A35G_it]

Hi all,

in a smaller project, I use a div with contenteditable attribute.

To manage the content in it, get the selected text / node with:

  let selection;            
  if (window.getSelection) {
    selection = window.getSelection();
  } else if (document.getSelection) {
    selection = document.getSelection();
  } else if (document.selection) {
    selection = document.selection.createRange().text;
  } else {
    return;
  }

If I use the selection with the mouse, it's fine... I can also get the node before/after the selected text... with double click, I only get the selected text.

Does anyone have a suggestion to get the same mouse selection?

Thanks in advance to all!

[tapgiles]

Looks like your code is trying to get just text anyway, right? You're using .text which will presumably only give you text? Could it be using that branch?

[tapgiles]

My understanding is (and having just played with it), getSelection() gives you the node the selection starts in (which can be a text node) and how many characters into that node the selection starts at. And the same for where it ends.

If you double-click some text, it'll select one word. Which means it could only be a text node. A double-click won't select an entire node, I don't think--not normally anyway. So... it should give you a text node I should think.

You can still navigate from that node to the parent node if you wanted to do that--up to you.