onclick select the text of a textarea

onclick select the text of a textarea

Posted by vaibhavsk

Sep 4, 2009

Sometimes we require that when the users click on a textarea at that time all the text should get selected.
This can be done with a small javascript.


<br />   some text here <br />   some text here<br />

When a user clicks on a textarea then all the contents will get selected.

Labels: html, javascript

2 comments:

Brian Crouse said... January 18, 2011 at 12:18 AM: Thanks that's what i was looking for...... :)
Mikeyg said... March 11, 2012 at 4:06 AM: Great code, I was exactly looking for this.
Searched the web for this great piece of code.
(I have the boxes in a while loop, and other codes didn't work, they keep selected the first area box, but now, it selects which you click, thats just great!!

Thank you very much, it helped me a lot!

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