Text Area Help

[dc1pop]

I have a text area section on my website i would like to create a button called "select all" this will then select the code within the given textarea.

Ive tried to do a few searchs on google but cant find the code Ive seen it done on some sites so it must be doable

Thanks for any help!

Regards,
Darren

 

[Dan]

Give the textarea an id (<textarea id="text"></textarea>)

And do
<input type="button" onclick="document.getElementById('text').select();" value="select text" />

 

[dc1pop]

Brillant! Great Help! Thanks

 

[Eric]

You don't even need to use a button

<textarea name="bleh" rows="5" cols="40" onClick="this.select();">bleh</textarea>

 

[dc1pop]

hmm well didnt know that :D

Thanks for the help aswell :D