How to get the selected text in textarea using jQuery in Internet Explorer 7?

Question

I tried the jquery-fieldselection plugin to get the selected text in textarea.

It works fine in Firefox and Chrome, but not in Internet Explorer 7.

I use the

Answer 1

Here is a very concise and compact jquery plugin that works for IE7,IE8,IE9,FF,Chrome.. Allows you to get/set start & end position of a selection and also replace selected text programmatically. A working example/code version is here: http://jsfiddle.net/hYuzk/3/ A version with more detailed comments etc. is here: http://jsfiddle.net/hYuzk/4/