getting selected text from text area

[ps_sach]

<form name="form1"  action="">

<input type="text area" name="area" width=20 height=10/>

</form>

 

 

i want to access the selected text from text area area in java script

 

 

any one can give help.....

[haku]

This is a javascript issue, not html, although there are errors in your html:

 

<form action="path/to/file.php" method="post">
<textarea id="target" name="area" cols="20" rows="10"></textarea>
</form>

 

Here is the javascript you can use:

 

<script type="text/javascript">
var targetText = document.getElementById("target").firstChild.data
</script>

 

The text in the textarea will then be contained in the javascript variable 'targetText'

[ps_sach]

This is a javascript issue, not html, although there are errors in your html:

 

<form action="path/to/file.php" method="post">
<textarea id="target" name="area" cols="20" rows="10"></textarea>
</form>

 

Here is the javascript you can use:

 

<script type="text/javascript">
var targetText = document.getElementById("target").firstChild.data
</script>

 

The text in the textarea will then be contained in the javascript variable 'targetText'

 

thanks for the help......

you have given the code to get the whole text from the text area...

But i want to access the selected text from the text area.

for example...

in java we can get the selected text form the text area as...

suppose the textarea name is area then,

 

string selectedText=area.getSelectedText();

 

i think this will be the function in java ,but i m not sure...

 

[haku]

java or javascript?

[ps_sach]

java or javascript?

i have just given the example of the java

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but i want the javascript code ........

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[nibbo]

You can use getSelected

 

i.e for your text area use:

 

document.getElementById('target').getSelected

 

 

[haku]

i have just given the example of the java

 

I'm not a java programmer, so I don't know what it looks like. But the above sure looked like javascript to me. That's where my confusion arose - I don't know if you are talking about javascript or java. Which one are you talking about?

[nibbo]

My suggestion is JavaScript