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HTML onselect Event Attribute
The HTML onselect event attribute is triggered when a user selects some text of an HTML element in an HTML document.
Syntax
Following is the syntax −
<tagname onselect=”script”></tagname>
Let us see an example of HTML onselect event Attribute −
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
color: #000;
height: 100vh;
background: linear-gradient(62deg, #FBAB7E 0%, #F7CE68 100%) no-repeat;
text-align: center;
padding: 20px;
}
textarea {
border: 2px solid #fff;
background: transparent;
padding: 10px;
}
::placeholder {
color: #000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>HTML onselect Event Attribute Demo</h1>
<textarea onselect="selectFn()" rows="5" cols="50">Please select me because I'm dummy text.</textarea>
<script>
function selectFn() {
document.body.style.background = "linear-gradient(45deg, #8BC6EC 0%, #9599E2 100%) no-repeat";
document.querySelector("textarea").style.background = "#fff";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Output

Now select the text inside the text area element to observe how onselect event attribute works.

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