Improve 'App.getSelectedText()'.

This also drops 'String.prototype.stripTags', which is no longer used.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/js/App.js b/js/App.js
index 5df313491..33bd81d9a 100644
--- a/js/App.js
+++ b/js/App.js
@@ -441,26 +441,9 @@ const App = {
          }
       });
    },
-   // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6251937/how-to-get-selecteduser-highlighted-text-in-contenteditable-element-and-replac
    getSelectedText: function() {
-      let text = "";
-
-      if (typeof window.getSelection != "undefined") {
-         const sel = window.getSelection();
-         if (sel.rangeCount) {
-            const container = document.createElement("div");
-            for (let i = 0, len = sel.rangeCount; i < len; ++i) {
-               container.appendChild(sel.getRangeAt(i).cloneContents());
-            }
-            text = container.innerHTML;
-         }
-      } else if (typeof document.selection != "undefined") {
-         if (document.selection.type == "Text") {
-            text = document.selection.createRange().textText;
-         }
-      }
-
-      return text.stripTags();
+      const sel = window.getSelection();
+      return sel ? sel.toString().trim() : "";
    },
    displayIfChecked: function(checkbox, elemId) {
       if (checkbox.checked) {