Onselectstart

Jack Michaelson's picture

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I study Interface Design in Holland and I'm working on an Intranet for a company. Now I've got this question:

When do you call the onselectstart-eventhandler?
Does is have something to do with the HTML object <select>?
I tried to get some examples from the Internet, but they're hard to find and even if I find one, it wouldn't work out for me.

Please reply.

Shakespeare: onclick || !(onclick)

John Pollock's picture

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I think it is used when a viewer uses the mouse to select text on the page (for instance to copy and paste the text). I think it would be called in a DIV or SPAN tag around the text, or in a textarea.

Jack Michaelson's picture

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thanks in advance

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