JQuery: Selecting Text in an Element (akin to highlighting with your mouse)
- by Jason
I would like to have users click a link that then selects the html text in another element (NOT an input). By "select" I mean the same way you would select text by dragging your mouse over it. This has been a bear to research because everyone talks about "select" or "highlight" in other terms.
Is this possible?
My code so far is thus:
html:
<a href="javascript:" onclick="SelectText('xhtml-code')">Select Code</a>
<code id="xhtml-code">Some Code here </code>
js (jquery):
function SelectText(element) {
$("#" + element).select();
}
but it doesn't work. Am I missing something blatantly obvious?
Thanks
