Selection Object

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You can get a reference to the current selection in RadEditor by using its getSelection method.

The Selection object exposes the following public methods and properties to control its behavior:

Selection Client-Side Methods

Name	Parameters	Return Type	Description
collapse	Boolean		Collapses a selection to the starting or ending position.The method takes the following arguments: toStart - The direction in which to collapse the selection. If true the selection will collapse from end to start.
getBrowserSelection		Object	Returns the browser's Selection object
getHtml		String	Returns the selection's content as HTML
getParentElement		Element	Returns a reference to the selection's parent DOM element
getRange		Object	Returns a reference to a range object
getText		String	Returns the selected content as plain text
isControl		Boolean	Specifies whether the current selection is a control or not.
moveToElementText	Element		Recreates the selection range.The method takes the following arguments: element - DOM element to be selected.
pasteHtml	String, Boolean		Pastes string at current selectionThe method takes the following arguments: htmlString - String to be pasted bSelContent - Specifies whether to select pasted content after execution
selectElement	Element		Adds an element to current selectionThe method takes the following arguments: oElement - DOM element to be added
selectRange	Object		Selects the previously stored rangeThe method takes the following arguments: **range