JavaScript get word before cursor

Question

Okay, I\'ve been looking all over the web to find a solution but I couldn\'t find one, is there a way to get the word before the caret position in an editable div so a bit l

Answer 1

I had something like that https://stackoverflow.com/a/9960262/986160 yet at some point it wasn't getting a selection in my Chrome browser. Based on my other answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26728677/986160 - I changed it accordingly to be:

function getLastWordBeforeCaret() {
    const containerEl = document.getElementById('element-id');
    let preceding = '';
    let sel;
    let range;
    if (window.getSelection) {
        sel = window.getSelection();
        if (sel && sel.rangeCount > 0) {
            range = sel.getRangeAt(0).cloneRange();
            range.collapse(true);
            range.setStart(containerEl, 0);
            preceding = range.toString();
        }
    }
    let queryMatch = preceding.match(/([^\s]+)$/i);
    if (queryMatch) {
        return queryMatch[1];
    } else {
        return '';
    }
}