how to get selection inside a div using jquery/javascript

Question

there are lots of code to get selection in a page, but i want a code to get selection inside a div, if the selection is outside of my div, the function must return empty str

Answer 1

You can use:

var node = window.getSelection ?        
       window.getSelection().focusNode.parentNode:
       document.selection.createRange().parentElement();

to get the element in which the selection end.

Then you can determine if that element is inside your div.