selectionStart property
Gets or sets the starting position or offset of a text selection.
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Syntax
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Property values
Type: Integer
The starting position of the text selection.
Standards information
- HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Section 7.6.2
Examples
The following code example shows how to set a text selection's start and end positions.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Selection Start and End example</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function SelectSomeText () {
var input = document.getElementById ("Textbox");
input.selectionStart = 4;
input.selectionEnd = 13;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p><input type="text" id="Textbox" size="40" value="The text selection appears here"/></p>
<p><button onclick="SelectSomeText ()">See selection</button></p>
</body>
</html>
See also
- HTMLInputElement
- input type=email
- input type=number
- input type=range
- input type=search
- input type=tel
- input type=text
- input type=url
- textArea
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