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Apr 13.2011

Hi,

I have seen the “Select All” button or “Highlight All” button on numerous sites in the way of selecting text in a form field, but what I am wanting to do is with a button select all text in a table so all the viewer needs to do is press CRTL+C to copy the text. I have tried [B]javascript:document.MyTable.select();[/B] but it doesn’t work. It really isn’t an option for me to use a text box for the data as it is being formed dynamically in a table from a database.

Any assistance would be appreciated. (Cross-browser would be fantastic) ?

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@wbportApr 13.2011 — document.tablename.[B]fieldname[/B].select() should work. Several examples are here.htm.
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@pj1981authorApr 13.2011 — document.tablename.[B]fieldname[/B].select() should work. Several examples are here.htm.[/QUOTE]


Ummm... the link that you attached took me to a page about Noteworthy Composer?!?! and I'm not using a form field or a text box... Just text in a table. :-S
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@wbportApr 13.2011 — Ummm... the link that you attached took me to a page about Noteworthy Composer?!?! and I'm not using a form field or a text box... Just text in a table. :-S[/QUOTE]
I don't think you can select an entire table, just individual fields. If you need more than one occurrence, do a [B]for[/B] loop to append to a string variable. [B]That[/B] can be moved to a text field to be selected like the twelve tone example.
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