Getting text under the mouse pointer

Question

I am writing a browser add-on and want to get the word (s) that the user currently hovers through Javascript.

Answer 1

There is no good universal function for this. If you specify which browser you add to, a specific workaround may occur. When I came across this problem in the past, I had to resort to a request to double-click a word (then you can detect a double click, get highlighted and reset back).

Answer 2

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Answer 3

My assumption is that you cannot do this if each word is not in its own container, for example, etc., and you have declared an onmouseover handler for this. A simpler approach is to use the currentSelection element when the user double-clicks or selects a piece of text in the browser. To do this, you can write on mouse click / double click events.