The select
event fires when some text has been selected.
The select
event fires when some text has been selected.
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener()
, or set an event handler property.
addEventListener("select", (event) => {}); onselect = (event) => {};
A generic Event
.
<input value="Try selecting some text in this element." /> <p id="log"></p>
function logSelection(event) { const log = document.getElementById("log"); const selection = event.target.value.substring( event.target.selectionStart, event.target.selectionEnd ); log.textContent = `You selected: ${selection}`; } const input = document.querySelector("input"); input.addEventListener("select", logSelection);
You can also set up the event handler using the onselect
property:
input.onselect = logSelection;
Specification |
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HTML Standard # event-select |
HTML Standard # handler-onselect |
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
select_event |
1 | 12 | 6 | 9 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 4.4 | 18 | 6 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputElement/select_event