Range: cloneRange() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The Range.cloneRange() method returns a Range object with boundary points identical to the cloned Range.

The returned clone is copied by value, not reference, so a change in either Range does not affect the other.

Syntax

cloneRange()

None.

A Range object.

const range = document.createRange();
range.selectNode(document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0));
const clone = range.cloneRange();

Specification
DOM # dom-range-clonerange

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