how to get selected text inside a textarea element by javascript?

Question

I'm not familiar with such attributes,

can someone provide a simple demo?

I need it to be done without any libraries.

Answer 1

Stackoverflow Archive

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/717224/how-to-get-selected-text-in-textarea
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/275761/how-to-get-selected-text-from-textbox-control-with-javascript

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