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Document: selectionchange event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨March 2017⁩.

The selectionchange event of the Selection API is fired when the current Selection of a Document is changed.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

The event can be handled by adding an event listener for selectionchange or using the onselectionchange event handler.

Note: This event is not quite the same as the selectionchange events fired when the text selection in an <input> or <textarea> element is changed. See the selectionchange event of HTMLInputElement for more details.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("selectionchange", (event) => { })

onselectionchange = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

// addEventListener version
document.addEventListener("selectionchange", () => {
  console.log(document.getSelection());
});

// onselectionchange version
document.onselectionchange = () => {
  console.log(document.getSelection());
};

Specifications

Specification
Selection API> # selectionchange-event>
Selection API> # dom-globaleventhandlers-onselectionchange>

Browser compatibility