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Select and Deselect Text Inside an Element using JavaScript
Following is the code to select and deselect text inside an element using JavaScript −
Example
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> <title>Document</title> <style> body { font-family: "Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; } .result { font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Select and Deselect Text Inside an Element</h1> <div style="color: green;" class="result"> Here is some text inside the div </div> <button class="Btn">SELECT</button> <button class="Btn">DESELECT</button> <h3>Click on the above button to select/de-select text inside the div</h3> <script> let resEle = document.querySelector(".result"); let BtnEle = document.querySelectorAll(".Btn"); BtnEle[0].addEventListener("click", () => { window.getSelection().selectAllChildren(resEle); }); BtnEle[1].addEventListener("click", () => { window.getSelection().removeAllRanges(); }); </script> </body> </html>
Output
The above code will produce the following output −
On clicking the ‘SELECT’ button −
On clicking the ‘DESELECT’ button −
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