I can use the following code to get selected text:
text=window.getSelection(); /// for Firefox
text=document.selection.createRange().text; /// for IE
But how can I get the selected Html, which includes the text and html tags?
In IE <= 10 browsers, it's:
document.selection.createRange().htmlText
As @DarrenMB pointed out IE11 no longer supports this. See this answer for reference.
In non-IE browsers, I just tried playing with this... this seems to work, WILL have side effects from breaking nodes in half and creating an extra span, but it's a starting point:
var range = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0),
content = range.extractContents(),
span = document.createElement('SPAN');
span.appendChild(content);
var htmlContent = span.innerHTML;
range.insertNode(span);
alert(htmlContent);
Unfortunately, I can't seem to put the node back as it was (since you can be pulling half the text from a span, for instance).
