Add getSelectedText to amp-bind

[FadySamirSadek]

What's the issue?

There is currently no way to get the text highlighted by the user in anyway currently in amp

[dvoytenko]

/to @choumx ptal

[dreamofabear]

@FadySamirSadek Thanks for filing this issue. What's the use case you're looking to support with this?

[FadySamirSadek]

I wanted to implement a tooltip feature like what is in medium where users can highlight a piece of text then they will have the option to share it , bookmark it or do anything with it . But currently there is no way to do that in amp and i think this will enhance the user experience so much on a lot of websites.

[dreamofabear]

One way to do this would be add a new AMP event that fires when highlighted text changes:

<p on="highlight:my-tooltip.toggleVisibility">Some highlightable text</p>

In this use case, would the tooltip also need the current mouse position?

[ampprojectbot]

This issue hasn't been updated in awhile. @choumx Do you have any updates?

[ampprojectbot]

This issue hasn't been updated in awhile. @choumx Do you have any updates?

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