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useTextSelection

Track user text selection based on document.getSelection

Usage​

Live Editor
function Demo() {
  const selection = useTextSelection();

  return (
    <div style={{ padding: 40 }}>
      <p>
        Select some text here or anywhere on the page and it will be displayed
        below
      </p>

      <div>Selected text: {selection?.toString()}</div>
    </div>
  );
};
Result
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API​

useTextSelection​

Returns​

Selection | null: selected text object

Arguments​