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How to get selected text from input field

Let's suppose I'm making some kind of markdown something like a stack-over-flow markdown. I want to get selected text from input and do some action with it

Reference

something like this!

Here The Selected Text is Hello

Solution

  • you can use

    window.getSelection().toString()

    it'll get the highlighted or selected text within the page