Event for selecting text?

[ed2050]

Question

How would you detect when user selects text on the page? Say user highlights text with mouse, now nicegui needs to do something with it.

If user triggers another action (keypress, button, etc) then it's fairly straightforward. Just call text = await ui.run_javascript (window.getSelection().toString()). A pain but doable.

But what if user doesn't perform another action? I don't see any events in nicegui or MDN to detect it.

BTW - urls to MDN and Quasar here should be clickable links. Right now just plain text.

[rodja]

There is the selectionchanged event: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/selectionchange_event

I made the links clickable on main. Will be updated with the upcoming release.

[ed2050]

Thanks. Nicegui docs only links to element events. Should add a link to document events too.