Baseline Widely available
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.
<textarea>Try selecting some text in this element.</textarea>
<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 textarea = document.querySelector("textarea");
textarea.addEventListener("select", logSelection);
You can also set up the event handler using the onselect property:
textarea.onselect = logSelection;
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