Thanx for the code.
It does not work to me. I am a newbye is JQuery, please excuse the
dumb questions...
This is my code and markup:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js";></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/
ui.core.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/
ui.draggable.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("p").live("mouseup",
function() {
selection = getSelectedText();
if(selection.length >= 3) {
var $spn = $("<span></span>").html(selection).addClass
("selected");
// append/set this '$spn' inside another DOM object
}
}
);
//Grab selected text
function getSelectedText(){
if(window.getSelection){
return window.getSelection().toString();
}
else if(document.getSelection){
return document.getSelection();
}
else if(document.selection){
return document.selection.createRange().text;
}
}
});
</script>
<style>
p { color:blue; }
div { color:red; }
span.hl { background: yellow; }
#selected {background: yellow;}
.selected {background: yellow;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="#container">
<p>this is the text to be selected - a part of it</div>
</body>
</html>
