I\'ve been working with selection/range objects, and because to the incredible amount of inconsistencies between browsers for specific selection/range stuff (even more than the
I've written a new range/selection library called Rangy that is similar in concept to IERange but goes quite a lot further. The core is pretty much complete and currently available to download. I'm currently bugfixing and documenting it and it should be only be a few weeks before a full release.
UPDATE 31 August 2011
Rangy is now stable and at version 1.2 (downloads page).
fieldselection is a very usable jquery plugin for selection/range manipulation.
(Made an answer by request ;)
Take a look at IERange:
IERange is a feature-complete implementation of W3C DOM Ranges for Internet Explorer, allowing users to write one cross-browser version of their range manipulation code.
Supports Range APIs:
document.createRange()startContainer, startOffset, endContainer, endOffset, commonAncestorContainer, collapsedsetStart(), setEnd(), setStartBefore(), setStartAfter(), setEndBefore(), setEndAfter(), selectNode(), selectNodeContents(), collapse()insertNode(), surroundContents()extractContents(), cloneContents(), deleteContents()compareBoundaryPoints(), cloneRange(), createContextualFragment(), toString()Supports Selection APIs:
window.getSelection()addRange(), removeAllRanges(), getRangeAt(), toString()