Detect when user selects text in a textarea

Question

How to detect when user selects text in a textarea with JS? I used jQuery-fieldselection ,but it works only if the range.text is putted into a pre tag.It doesn't work with div.

Answer 1

It works and in a div ,with http://phpjs.org/functions/nl2br:480 .

Answer 2

Use the select event. It works for <textarea> and <input type="text"> elements in all mainstream browsers. Support is not universal for other elements.

document.getElementById("your_textarea").onselect = function() {
    alert("Select");
};