Determine user-selected text

[Jeff S]

I would like to provide users with a text box in which they can enter a
bunch of text (200 bytes or so). I would like to subsequently
programmatically determine which text the user has selected.

How can the user selection (selected text) be determined during a postback?
How about on the client side? Can it be determined without having to first
post back? I need to understand both ways.

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Hi Jeff,

If you need to send the text to the server for processing, you can do the following.

From the client side, you can insert any text into a hidden serverside text control (TextBox1) with document.all.TextBox1.value = "some selected string". On the serverside, check for Page.IsPostBack == true and get the value from TextBox1.Text.

Hope this helps,
Thomas

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