Insert selected text on the page into textarea (jQuery)

Question

Need to insert selected text on the page into textarea. There must be some button to do it.

Answer 1

jQuery(function() {
    // Bind the click handler of some button on your page
    jQuery('#someButton').click(function(evt) {
        // Insert the selected text into a given textarea
        var textarea = jQuery('textarea#someTextArea');
        textarea.val(textarea.val() + getSelectedText());
        evt.preventDefault();
    });
});

// Get user selection text on page
function getSelectedText() {
    if (window.getSelection) {
        return window.getSelection();
    }
    else if (document.selection) {
        return document.selection.createRange().text;
    }
    return '';
}

Answer 2

You can do something like this:

• Copy the selected text you can use some jquery plugin listed here.

• Paste it inside a textarea:

  $('#textareaselector').text(selectedText)