Select All Text by Clicking on Text Field or Textarea Box

This script highlight all text in textarea or text field (input tag) by clicking on it. It allows users to reduce their manual work. For instance when users need to copy to the clipboard all text quickly or quickly delete the text from the field. For example: to copy a piece of code or to delete a username and password on login web page.

Sample

Textarea:

Input TextBox:

Code

The script is really very simple. Text field must have unique identifier, this indentifier will be passed to the SelectAll() function. The function call only two methods: focus() and select().

<script type="text/javascript">
function SelectAll(id)
{
    document.getElementById(id).focus();
    document.getElementById(id).select();
}
</script>

Textarea:<br>
<textarea rows="3" id="txtarea" onClick="SelectAll('txtarea');" style="width:200px" >This text you can select all by clicking here </textarea>

Input TextBox:<br>
<input type="text" id="txtfld" onClick="SelectAll('txtfld');" style="width:200px" value = "This text you can select all" />