Question

I have a textarea within an iframe. I want to select the textarea text with an onclick event in JavaScript.

Example:

I have an iframe.

The inner content of the iframe is this:
<textarea id="textarea" disabled onclick="selectthis()">
"content of textarea"
</textarea>

I want to select the text so the user can copy it:

I put this at the head of my page:

function selectthis() {
   document.getElementById('textarea').select();
}

But when I click on the textarea, it’s not selected.

Answer 1

　 　　　　　　　　You typed getElementById wrong.

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Change getelementById to getElementById. JavaScript is case-sensitive.

http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/ArGhg/

Plus,

<textarea id="textarea" onclick="selectthis">  <!--Nope-->
<textarea id="textarea" onclick="selectthis();">  <!--Yup!-->

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UPDATE

I see what you did there. You can not select text within a disabled <textarea>.
See http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/ArGhg/2/

According to Francisc’s comment, using readonly will solve the problem.
See http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/ArGhg/3/