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Get text and context (sentence, paragraph...) from window.getSelection().

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Get Selection More

APIs

/**
 * Returns the selected text
 */
function getText(win?: Window): string
function getTextFromSelection(selection: Selection | null, win?: Window): string
/**
 * Returns the paragraph containing the selection text.
 */
function getParagraph(win?: Window): string
function getParagraphFromSelection(selection: Selection | null): string
/**
 * Returns the sentence containing the selection text.
 */
function getSentence(win?: Window): string
function getSentenceFromSelection(selection: Selection | null): string

Optionally pass window of other frame to get selection within that frame.

Usage

import { getText, getParagraph, getSentence } from 'get-selection-more'

document.addEventListener('selectionchange', () => {
  console.log(getText(), getParagraph(), getSentence())
})

Or load the UMD module directly which exposes getSelectionMore global.