Method	Description
"clear()"	Clears the contents of the current selection.
"empty()"	Deselects the current selection.
"createRange()"	Creates a TextRange object for the selection.

document.onmouseup = document.selection.clear;

The empty() method simply deselects the current selection. A nice, but useless implementation of this method is to create a selection-free page:

document.onmouseup = document.selection.empty;

The createRange() method is very simple. It returns a TextRange object for the current selection. Here's an example:

var range = document.selection.createRange();

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