getSelection Javascript . I want to get string , not object

Question

I'm new to javascript : I use window.getSelection() to get a string . But it returns an object.

    var text = '';
text = document.getSelection();
alert(typeof(text)); // << it returns object

Answer 1

You are correct. getSelection() returns an object. What is your question?

Answer 2

.getSelection() returns a DOMSelection object. The DOMSelection class contains a .toString() method to turn it into a string.

So

var str = window.getSelection().toString();
alert(typeof(str));  // string.

Answer 3

getSelection returns a Selection object. You can get the selected text by calling its toString method.

Answer 4

text = document.getSelection()+''; alert(typeof(text)); // << it returns string