Selected text in Textarea

[armandoxxx]

is there a function or method or any way to get the value of selected text in text area ...

for example ..
I have "this is my text" in text area .. and I only select "this" in the textarea ...

is there any function that would return this selected on button click ??

10x

Armando

 

[WildWill]

Try

function getSelected(form)
{
  text = (form) ? document.selection.createRange().text : document.getSelection();
  alert(text)
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>

...

<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE=&quot;button&quot; VALUE=&quot;Selection?&quot; onClick=&quot;getSelected(this.form)&quot;>
<TEXTAREA NAME=&quot;myText&quot; COLS=40 ROWS=2&quot;>
Hello from me

</TEXTAREA>
</FORM>

Billy H

bhogar@acxiom.co.uk