HTMLTextAreaElement: select() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The select() method of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface selects the entire contents of the <textarea> element. In addition, the select event is fired. The select() method does not take any parameters and does not return a value.

Syntax

select()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

js
const textarea = document.getElementById("text-box");
textarea.select();

Specifications

Specification

HTML
# dom-textarea/input-select-dev

Browser compatibility

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