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
js
toString()
Parameters
None.
Return value
A string.
Examples
HTML
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
js
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
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