jQuery PageSelect Plugin

This is a plugin for jQuery designed to allow cross-browser handling of "page selection," that is selecting HTML on the page (not in a textarea). At the moment this is an extremely unready and unfeatured implementation that simply creates a custom 'pageselect' event that one may listen to in order to get the currently selected text.

Usage

The limited usage right now is a $.getSelection() utility method and a 'pageselect' event. How to use each is detailed below:

alert($.getSelection()); // Display the current selection in an alert box.

// Alert with the currently selected text whenever
// text inside the '#content' element is selected.
$('#content').bind('pageselect', function(event, selection) {
  alert(selection);
})

Future

I aim to expand this plugin to do much more than simply grab the currently selected text. In the future this plugin should be able to:

• Grab the actual HTML fragment that is currently selected.
• Wrap the selected HTML with more HTML (for highlighting and other purposes)
• Make use of other features of the W3C Range