Floating Share/Search/Translate Buttons For Text Selection - goshare.js

goshare.js is a jQuery plugin to show a floating action bar on text selection that enables your visitor to share, search, translate selected text within the document.

Features:

• Share your content on Facebook and Twitter.
• Search selected text on Google search engine.
• Translate selected text using Google Translate.

See also:

• jQuery Plugin For Turning Html Content Into Tweetable Quotes - ProQuo
• Customizable jQuery Plugin To Tweet Highlighted Text - quoteShare.js
• jQuery Plugin For Tweetable Website Content - tweetable.js
• jQuery Plugin For Shareable Web Content - Contentshare.js
• Minimalist jQuery Tweetable Text Plugin - Tweet Highlighted
• jQuery Plugin For Tweeting User Highlighted Text - Tweetit.js
• Share Selected Text On Twitter & Email - jQuery Selection Sharer

How to use it:

1. Download the plugin and put the JavaScript file goshare.js after jQuery library.

<script src="/path/to/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/goshare.js"></script>

2. Just call the function goshare() on the target text container and done.

<p id="demo">jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. As of May 2019, jQuery is used by 73% of the 10 million most popular websites.</p>

$(function(){
  $("#demo").goshare();
});

3. Overide the default action buttons or create your owns as follows:

$('#goshare-search').click(function () {
  var selection = getSelected();
  window.open('https://www.google.com/search?q=' + selection, '_blank');
  HideGoShar();
  return false;
});

$('#goshare-translate').click(function () {
  var selection = getSelected();
  window.open('https://translate.google.com/#auto/es/' + selection, '_blank');
  HideGoShar();
  return false;
});

$('#goshare-facebook').click(function () {
  var selection = getSelected();
  var fbPop = window.open("https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=" + location.href, "", "width=600,height=400");
  HideGoShar();
  return false;
});

$('#goshare-twitter').click(function () {
  var selection = getSelected();
  var twPop = window.open("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?&text=" + selection + "&url=" + location.href, "", "width=600,height=400");
  HideGoShar();
  return false;
});

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by nazzal88. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.