# Need help to \*\*getSelected\*\* and \*\*replace\*\* from Toolbarevent

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [May 13, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-to-getselected-and-replace-from-toolbarevent/226905 "2022-05-13T00:01:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-to-getselected-and-replace-from-toolbarevent/226905/4 "2022-05-14T11:32:57Z")

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I am not sure this is what I want. I just want to call a few javascript calls. I think I see them but the toolevent only gives access to a small set of calls.

I can gettext and addtext, but not much else.  
I’m looking for functions that mimic this functionality:  
`getselectedtext`  
`replaceselectedtext`

I think this should be available.

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