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Range: toString() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The Range.toString() method is a stringifier returning the text of the Range.

Syntax

toString()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A string.

Examples

HTML

<p>
  This example logs <em>everything</em> between the emphasized <em>words</em>.
  Look at the output below.
</p>
<p id="log"></p>

JavaScript

const range = document.createRange();

range.setStartBefore(document.getElementsByTagName("em").item(0), 0);
range.setEndAfter(document.getElementsByTagName("em").item(1), 0);
document.getElementById("log").textContent = range.toString();

Result

Specifications

Specification
DOM> # dom-range-stringifier>

Browser compatibility

	Desktop					Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`toString`	1	12	1	9	1	18	4	10.1	1	1.0	4.4	1