How to capture select range event on a contenteditable div?

hi psogaa,

so:
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<div id="myDiv" ContentEditable="true">blablabla blablabla</div>

<button onclick=alert(document.selection.createRange().text)>getSelection()</button>

That is not what i want.

I want to capture the event that a user selects some text in my div.

From MSDN:
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How do I update my application's menus and toolbars based on the current selection?
The DHTML Editing control fires the DisplayChanged event whenever the editing context has changed (for example, when the user has selected an element). Use this event to update your menus and toolbars by calling QueryStatus. The VBEdit sample in the DHTML Editing Component SDK demonstrates this technique by updating its toolbar to reflect formatting of the current selection.
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This is exactly what I want to do - only I don't use the DHTML Editing control, i use a ContentEditable Div instead.

try this:

<div id="myDiv" onkeyup=runit() onmouseup=runit() ContentEditable="true">blablabla blablabla</div>
<script>
function runit()
{
      alert(document.selection.createRange().text);
}
</script>

Hmm, yeah i guess keyup and mouseup covers all possible ways of selecting content.
Was hoping for a specific event for context change instead of a workaround.

I'll leave the question open for a while longer before i accept your comment as answer if you don't mind.

Thanks for the help so far :)

Actually it works like a charm with those 2 events :)

Thanks!