How do I get the selected text from a WKWebView from objective-C

Question

I have a WKWebView.

When the user right-clicks on it, I can customize a contextual menu in my objective-c method. I\'d like to add a menu item only if the user has s

Answer 1

One only needs to evaluate simple js script

NSString *script = @"window.getSelection().toString()";

using evaluateJavaScript method

[wkWebView evaluateJavaScript:script completionHandler:^(NSString *selectedString, NSError *error) {
    
}];

The Swift version

let script = "window.getSelection().toString()"
wkWebView.evaluateJavaScript(script) { selectedString, error in
        
}