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Chrome Extension get selected text

rated 0 times [ 65] [ 6] / answers: 1 / hits: 40221 / 11 Years ago, thu, october 3, 2013, 12:00:00

I am looking for a way to get the selected text into my Chrome extension.

I want to ex. select a text in facebook feed and when I click my icon it will get it and show the selected text in my Extension.

I got this so far:

chrome.tabs.executeScript(null, {

  code: alert(window.getSelection().toString());

})

it gets the selected text and alert it with a message in Chrome. However I want to show it in my html popup. I want to write it out like this:

document.getElementById(output).value = Selected text here(but how)

Need help! and I know there is other question about this, but they didn't give me exactly what I want..

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answered 11 Years ago savanar · Accepted Answer

You can use the last expression evaluated by the executed code in a callback function:

chrome.tabs.executeScript( {

  code: window.getSelection().toString();

}, function(selection) {

  document.getElementById(output).value = selection[0];

});