Getting selected text within iframe in IE

Question

I have iframe with id="iView" and designMode = on.

My code:

 var iframeWindow = document.getElementById('iView').contentWindow.document;                                                                                            
 var range = iframeWindow.getSelection().getRangeAt(0);

The Error I get:

Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this property or method

I also tried answers from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1471759/how-to-get-selected-text-from-iframe-with-javascript

Answer 1

There is no getSelection method for the document object in IE, you have to use the selection object instead.

var selText;
var iframeWindow = document.getElementById('iView').contentWindow;
if (iframeWindow.getSelection)
    selText = iframeWindow.getSelection()+"";
else if (iframeWindow.document.selection)
    selText = iframeWindow.document.selection.createRange().text;