Select All Content In Textbox

DigitalBliss · 04-27-2005, 06:44 AM

Hey how can I make a button where if people clicked it, it selects all the text and copies it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Philip M · 04-27-2005, 07:07 AM

<Input tye="Button" value="Copy To Clipboard" onClick="document.form.textbox.select(); document.execCommand('Copy');">

However, this only works in IE.

DigitalBliss · 04-27-2005, 06:02 PM

Okay then, but I saw a form that I could highlight all when using firefox, how can I do just highlight all?

sftl99 · 04-27-2005, 08:04 PM

This goes in the <head> section...

Code:

<script language="Javascript">
<!--
function selectAll(theField) {
var tempval=eval("document."+theField)
tempval.focus()
tempval.select()
therange=tempval.createTextRange()
therange.execCommand("Copy")
}
//-->
</script>

This is your <body>...

Code:

<form name="form">
  <a href="javascript:selectAll('form.area')">Select All</a><br>
  <textarea rows="7" cols="48" name="area">text to be selected</textarea></form>

This code will SELECT ALL and COPY in I.E., but will not perform the COPY function in Firefox, the SELECT ALL still works in Firefox.