HTMLTextAreaElement: select() method
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The select()
method of the HTMLTextAreaElement
interface selects the entire contents of the <textarea>
element. In addition, the select
event is fired. The select()
method does not take any parameters and does not return a value.
Syntax
js
select()
Parameters
None.
Return value
None (undefined
).
Examples
js
const textarea = document.getElementById("text-box");
textarea.select();
Specifications
Specification |
---|
HTML Standard # dom-textarea/input-select-dev |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
See also
<textarea>
select
eventaddEventListener()
- CSS
::selection
pseudo-element