Range.toString

The Range.toString() method is a stringifier returning the text of the Range.

Alerting the contents of a Range makes an implicit toString() call, so comparing range and text through an alert dialog is ineffective

Syntax

text = range.toString();

Example

var range = document.createRange();

range.selectNode(document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0));
text = range.toString();

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
DOM The definition of 'Range.toString()' in that specification.	Living Standard	No change.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification The definition of 'Range.toString()' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial specification.

Browser compatibility

See also

• The DOM interfaces index