have you ever seen those cool tricks on other websites where they have the code and to copy the code they have a submit form so you can hightlight all the text in the text area, well this script below will show you how you can do this. you can learn from this simple code by copy and paste into a text editor link notepad and save it, then upload to your website to see it in action.

here is a demo:











and here is the code: Courtesy of www.webune.com
<html>
<title>Cool Javascript Tricks Select All Code From Textarea Form</title>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<center>
<form name="select_all">

<textarea name="text_area" rows="10" cols="80">
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</textarea>

<br>
<input type="button" value="Highlight Text" onClick="javascript:this.form.text_area.focus();this.form.text_area.select();">

</form>
</center>

</body>
</html>


please tell me if this was helpful. if it was not please tell me what you were looking for. i would appreciate your comments. i want to help anyone. i have extensive knowledge in javascript and i might be able to help you in what you are looking for. my scripts/snippets are free. please feel free to ask any questions you may have