How to bind a handler to a selection change on window?

Question

Basically I need to know when the window.getSelection() has changed and bind a handler to this event. Ideas?

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Answer 1

There is no cross-browser event for that.

However, there does exist an event called selectionchange, which trigger on every change in a selection in the document, but it is only supported in IE and recent WebKit (Chrome/Safari), so no Firefox/Opera.

You can use the selectionchange event like this:

$(document).on('selectionchange', function(e) {
    console.log('selectionchange', e.originalEvent); 
});

jsfiddle example