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title: Selection.toString()
slug: Web/API/Selection/toString
translation_of: Web/API/Selection/toString
---
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<div>{{ ApiRef("DOM") }}{{SeeCompatTable}}</div>
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<p><strong><code>Selection.toString()</code></strong> 메소드는 selection 객체가 현재 나타내는 문자열을 반환합니다. 즉, 현재 선택된 텍스트의 문자열.</p>

<h2 id="Syntax" name="Syntax">Syntax</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox"><em>str</em> =<em> sel</em>.toString()
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<h3 id="Return_value">Return value</h3>

<p>A string representing the selection.</p>

<h2 id="Description" name="Description">Description</h2>

<p>This method returns the currently selected text.</p>

<p>In <a href="en/JavaScript">JavaScript</a>, this method is called automatically when a function the selection object is passed to requires a string:</p>

<pre class="brush: js">alert(window.getSelection()) // What is called
alert(window.getSelection().toString())  // What is actually being effectively called.
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<h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2>

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   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
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   <td>{{SpecName('HTML Editing', '#dom-selection-stringifier', 'Selection.toString()')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML Editing')}}</td>
   <td>Initial definition</td>
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<h2 id="Browser_compatibility" name="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>

<div>{{Compat("api.Selection.toString")}}</div>

<h2 id="See_also" name="See_also">See also</h2>

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 <li>{{domxref("Selection")}}, the interface it belongs to.</li>
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