Bind to the textSelect event, a custom DOM-like event generated using jQuery's Special Events API. The textSelect event triggers when the user selects any text within a bound element.

Check the jQuery Plugins Registry for the latest published version of this plugin!

You can also download the production version or the development version from GitHub.

In your web page:

<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script src="dist/jquery.textSelect.min.js"></script>
<script>
    jQuery(selector).on("textSelect", callbackFn);
</script>

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Works 100% with jQuery versions:

• 1.7.x
• 1.8.x
• 1.9.x

Untested jQuery versions:

• Anything below 1.7.x (incompatible jQuery Special Events API)
• 2.0.0b1

(Coming soon)

• 0.5.1: Published to the jQuery Plugins Registry on 2013-02-14.
  • Changing the filenames to include the "jquery." prefix.
• 0.5.0: Published to the jQuery Plugins Registry on 2013-02-13.
  • Initial release. Lots of work to get done (see Issues).