# Dom range api in Elm
**URL:** https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/dom-range-api-in-elm/6593
**Category:** Learn
**Created:** [December 2, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/dom-range-api-in-elm/6593 "2020-12-02T13:45:53Z")
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### Author:  [@ubourdon](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/ubourdon)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/dom-range-api-in-elm/6593/1 "2020-12-02T13:45:53Z")
Hi,
I am looking for a way to use dom range api (or selection) [https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/API/Range](https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/API/Range)
in a Elm context (not using port).
Is that exist for 0.19 ?
Thx for your answers.
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### Author:  [@tgelu](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/tgelu)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/dom-range-api-in-elm/6593/2 "2020-12-02T15:23:00Z")
I think unless someone from the core team implements something, the best you can do is a web component. That worked fine for me but I ended up using ports in the end as I had a simple use case.
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### Author:  [@rupert](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/rupert)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/dom-range-api-in-elm/6593/3 "2020-12-02T20:21:36Z")
I think the answer is no.
You can listen to `selection` events from pure Elm, but this event does not tell you much that is useful. The next thing you might want to do is to get the selection and range:
```auto
document.getSelection();
selection.getRangeAt();
```
And there is no built-in Elm API for this.
By chance, I have been working a good amount with the Selection API recently. I found the best way for me to integrate it into Elm was through custom elements. You can find my work in progress code here:
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### Author:  [@ubourdon](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/ubourdon)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/dom-range-api-in-elm/6593/4 "2020-12-02T22:28:48Z")
Thx very much. I will look at your work. Very useful.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/dom-range-api-in-elm/6593/5 "2020-12-12T22:28:54Z")
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