November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
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Name
HTMLTextAreaElement.select( ) — select the text in this element
Availability
DOM Level 1 HTML
Synopsis
void select( );
Description
This method selects all the text displayed by this
<textarea> element. In most browsers, this
means that the text is highlighted and that new text entered by the
user will replace the highlighted text instead of being appended to
it.