JQuery, Filter by User Selection? Range?

Question

How can I filter my selector by what the user has selected???

I'm trying to find specific elements inside what the user has highlighted.

$('.item', document.selection) ?
$('.item', editor.getSelection().getRanges()[0]) ?

Answer 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/815202/insert-selected-text-on-the-page-into-textarea-jquery/815236#815236

This might help. Maybe push it into a hidden element and then have jQuery reference that