Quirksmode: Introduction to Range

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A useful overview of Ranges in an HTML Document, with examples for (of import to myself) getting the text a user has selected so you can do stuff with it.

Of note: None of the examples here seem to work on iOS WebKit.

  • 26 August 2010

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