How do you stop the user from selecting any text on a page but still allow them to select text in textarea for editing purposes? At the moment I am using onselectstart="return false" in the body tag but it also stops you selecting any text in textareas too.
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Need to select words in textarea but not on page??
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Hi Mart28,
Try this:
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
function SelectTrue()
{
window.event.cancelBubble = true;
window.event.returnValue = true;
}
</SCRIPT>
<body onselectstart="return false">
<FORM onselectstart="SelectTrue()" name="FormName" METHOD="POST" >
Hope this helps,
Erik
<!-- My sport: Boomerang throwing !!
This year I will participate at the World Championships in Germany. (!! Many Happy Returns !! -->
Try this:
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
function SelectTrue()
{
window.event.cancelBubble = true;
window.event.returnValue = true;
}
</SCRIPT>
<body onselectstart="return false">
<FORM onselectstart="SelectTrue()" name="FormName" METHOD="POST" >
Hope this helps,
Erik
<!-- My sport: Boomerang throwing !!
This year I will participate at the World Championships in Germany. (!! Many Happy Returns !! -->
Maybe I was a bit confusing. In my first post the whole <form> is allowed to be selected.
(I assumed that the textarea is in the form)
I you only use a Textarea or if you only want the Textarea in a form to be selected , then put the function in the Textarea:
<TEXTAREA onselectstart="SelectTrue()"
Hope this helps,
Erik <!-- My sport: Boomerang throwing !!
This year I will participate at the World Championships in Germany. (!! Many Happy Returns !! -->
(I assumed that the textarea is in the form)
I you only use a Textarea or if you only want the Textarea in a form to be selected , then put the function in the Textarea:
<TEXTAREA onselectstart="SelectTrue()"
Hope this helps,
Erik <!-- My sport: Boomerang throwing !!
This year I will participate at the World Championships in Germany. (!! Many Happy Returns !! -->
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