As the title implies, when using the ArcGIS OnLine calculator it would be nice to apply calculations to selected records only.
I agree it would be useful and intuitive to be able to calculate selected records from the item details/data/table view page (and also from the attribute table in the map view).
A workaround that I just tested works as follows:
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