javascript select text in textarea onload

Question

How do I automatically select the text that is in a textarea when the page loads using JavaScript?

Answer 1

JSFiddle Demo

You can do it this way:

HTML:

<textarea id='mytext'>Testing 1 2 3</textarea>

JavaScript:

 window.onload = document.getElementById('mytext').select();

Where mytext is your textarea

Answer 2

Try this:

Textarea:
    <textarea rows="3" id="txtarea"  style="width:200px" >This text you can select all by clicking here </textarea>

    <script type="text/javascript">

        document.getElementById('txtarea').focus();
        document.getElementById('txtarea').select();

    </script>