Selection: type property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.
The type read-only property of the
Selection interface returns a string describing the
type of the current selection.
Value
Examples
In this example, the event handler will fire each time a new selection is made.
console.log(selection.type) will return Caret or
Range depending on whether the caret is placed at a single point in the
text, or a range has been selected.
js
let selection;
document.onselectionchange = () => {
console.log("New selection made");
selection = document.getSelection();
console.log(selection.type);
};
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Selection API # dom-selection-type |
Browser compatibility
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