Select and copy textarea text when button pressed

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I need to make a pseudo-chat addition to my website. The idea is that you write somewhere on the website, then press a button next to it and it transfers the written to a frame above. I tried doing it with textarea and even found a code how to select and copy the text, but it was also said that it works only in IE. Does anyone have an alternative idea, because textarea seems a little iffy : /

Thanks in advance

this is for you : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3475293/copy-and-paste-clipboard-in-javascript-or-jquery — Pranay Rana, Mar 26 '11 at 10:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '11 at 14:29

If you want to copy text from a textarea reliably and only need to store it in a variable rather than to the user's clipboard (which seems to be what you're suggesting), the following will do it in all major browsers:

function getSelectedText(textarea) {
    if (typeof textarea.selectionStart == "number") {
        return textarea.value.slice(textarea.selectionStart, textarea.selectionEnd);
    } else if (typeof document.selection != "undefined") {
        textarea.focus();
        return document.selection.createRange().text;
    }
}

Select and copy textarea text when button pressed

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