direction property

String get direction

The direction read-only property of the Selection interface is a string that provides the direction of the current selection.

The value is determined by the order in which the user chooses the boundary points of the selection. For example, a user might make a selection by clicking a starting boundary point, dragging the cursor, and releasing at an end boundary point. If the end boundary point is later in the document than the start point, then the direction is "forwards", while the direction is "backwards" if the end point is before the start point within the document. The value is "directionless" if no direction is implied by the user. For example, if the user made the selection by double-clicking on a word or element, or the selection was made programmatically.

The direction does not change if a selection's range is mutated, for example, using methods like Range.selectNode.

Implementation

external String get direction;