// Code from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5379120/get-the-highlighted-selected-text function() { var text = ""; var activeEl = document.activeElement; var activeElTagName = activeEl ? activeEl.tagName.toLowerCase() : null; if ( (activeElTagName == "textarea") || (activeElTagName == "input" && /^(?:text|search|password|tel|url)$/i.test(activeEl.type)) && (typeof activeEl.selectionStart == "number") ) { text = activeEl.value.slice(activeEl.selectionStart, activeEl.selectionEnd); } else if (window.getSelection) { text = window.getSelection().toString(); } return text; }