Document: selectionchange event

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

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

Examples

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

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

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• selectstart
• Document.getSelection()
• Selection