highlight textarea contents

[raoul]

I tried to find information on this subject but couldn't find anything about it.

Am I right that it is not possible to dynamically select the contents of a textarea?

Or perhaps with vbscript?

Thanks,
Raoul

[glenngv]

do you mean this?

<form>
<textarea name="texta">
this is a
textarea
blah
blah
</textarea>
<input type="button" value="Hilite" onclick="this.form.texta.select()">
</form>

[whammy]

If you're talking about selecting specific text within a textarea, etc. it can only be done in IE using createTextRange() and other proprietary IE functions (in JScript, not really JavaScript, and I would avoid using VBScript unless you are on an intranet where people are required to use Internet Exploder)... therefore I avoid them, personally, since they are not cross-browser compatible.

If on the other hand you just want to select the textarea contents, the code that Glenn posted above should do that perfectly.

:)

[raoul]

Yes, thanks! I need to select all textarea contents so that works great.

Raoul