Regular expression to select the contents of textarea

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Hey how to write regular expression to select the contents of textarea(i need to select all the contents in one click)

document.getElementById('text').focus();
document.getElementById('text').select();

Have tried this...but want to write the same thing using regular expression

Posted 31-Mar-14 20:24pm

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Er. Puneet Goel · Answer 1 · 2014-03-31T21:09:00

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Hi,

A regular express lets you to validate some text/value as per expression. But the thing you wants to do can be done as you already did or use jquery.

Posted 31-Mar-14 21:09pm

Er. Puneet Goel