Copy and Select All Buttons

[Darin]

Hi,

I need help with something for my forms. Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to create two buttons under my text form, which do the following. The first one selects everything in that particular input field, and the other one copies everything in that field.

I need this for my content management system. It creates a bunch of HTML code, which I have to select everytime and copy and paste it. It would be very useful to have two buttons do that.

I've seen this on other sites if that helps. Thank you for your help!

[notepad_coder]

Why do you have to copy and paste it everytime?

The only way I know of is click inside the textarea, hit Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+V

[Wavelan]

<input type="button" onClick="document.formName.test.select()" value="Select">
<textarea rows="10" cols="20" name="test"></textarea>

sorry not much time to explain right now but do you get what I mean?

[mattjacob]

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...selectform.htm

[Andrew-J2000]

<script>
function selected(form, seltxt)
{
    if (form==null || form=='')
    {
        alert('form not entered');
    }
    else
    {
        x = eval('document.' + form + '.' + seltxt);
        x.select();
    }

}
</script>



<form name="form1">
<textarea rows="10" cols="20" name="test" id="test"></textarea>
<input type="button" onClick="selected()" name="none" id="none" value="Select">
</form> 

[Darin]

Thank you all for your help!!