Event handler for Text,Textarea

The onSelect event handler is used to execute specified JavaScript code whenever the user selects some of the text within a text or textarea field. The onSelect event handler uses the following properties of the Event Object:

type - indicates the type of event.
target - indicates the target object to which the event was sent.

In the following example, selecting some of the text in the Text object causes the 'selectEvent' function to execute:

Code:
<INPUT TYPE="text" onSelect="selectEvent()">