Clear a selection in Firefox

Question

I have this function

function smth() {
var container = null;
var newContainer = null;
if (window.getSelection) {  // all browsers, except IE before versi         


        

Answer 1

For the problematic browser:

document.selection.empty()

For other browsers:

window.getSelection().removeAllRanges()

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