How to get the selected text from HTML input text with JavaScript

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>  
</head>
  
<body>

Enter a string: <input type="text" id="input-text-id" onselect="GetSelection()">

<script>        

function GetSelection() 
{
    it = document.getElementById("input-text-id");
    pid = document.getElementById("p-id");
    pid.innerHTML = it.value.substring(it.selectionStart, it.selectionEnd);
}

/*
run:
  
I wrote "javascript" as text and select "cascri" that will show on "p-id"
    
*/

</script>

<p id="p-id"></p>

</body>
</html>

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answered Aug 23, 2015 by avibootz
edited Aug 24, 2015 by avibootz

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