You can select a part of a web page with the mouse.
I know that I can get the currently selected text but how can I get the DOM element which contains the start or end of the current selection?
In IE, use document.selection.createRange().parentElement() and in real browsers use window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).startContainer.parentNode. Something like this:
function getSelectedNode()
{
if (document.selection)
return document.selection.createRange().parentElement();
else
{
var selection = window.getSelection();
if (selection.rangeCount > 0)
return selection.getRangeAt(0).startContainer.parentNode;
}
}
