window.getSelection() gives me the selected text, but I want the HTML

Question

I\'m extending a WYSIWYG HTML editor (for Firefox), I want to add tags around a selection. I can\'t find a function to accomplish this in the Mozilla Midas specification.

Answer 1

window.getSelection() will return an object. You can use the returned selection object as a string by calling the objects .toString() method.

var selObj = window.getSelection();
var selectedText = selObj.toString(); 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.getSelection