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if you need to see a demo code using javascript to select text from a textarea or a text field in a form, this is the tutorial for you. its very simle but explains how to copy and paste from a field that has highlight the text [789], Last Updated: Sat May 18, 2024
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Thu Jan 11, 2007
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javascript is cool for making things in your browser, here is an example script to show you how you can put this on your site so that you don't have to hit the control + c on you keyboard to copy and paste the selected text in web forms.
here is a demo:
here is the code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Select Copy Text Into Clipboard History with Javascript</title>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
function copyit(theField) {
var selectedText = document.selection;
if (selectedText.type == 'Text') {
var newRange = selectedText.createRange();
theField.focus();
theField.value = newRange.text;
} else {
alert('Alert: Select The text in the textarea then click on this button');
}
}
// End -->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p><strong>Select Copy Text Into Clipboard History with Javascript by Wallpaperama.com </strong></p>
<p><strong>Steps:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Hight the text inside the text area below</strong></p>
<p><strong>2. Click on the form button, this will copy the text into your clipboard (basically the same as hitting control + c on your keyboard)</strong></p>
<form name="javascript">
<input onclick="copyit(this.form.text_select)" type="button" value="Click Here to Copy the Highlighted Text" name="copy_button">
<p>
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</textarea>
</form>
<div align="center">
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</div>
</body>
</html>
Try it on your website, you will like it
here is another way to select the content in a field with javascript: check it out
javascript select all text form button
NOTE: This will work on Internet Explorer. I tried it on Mozilla Firefox but i did not do anything. i was hoping someone can help me with firefox?
https://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/javascript-copy-selected-text-box-select-all-highlight-text-form-copy-paste-t706.html