Set textarea selection in Internet Explorer

Question

I\'m looking for a way to set a selection in a textarea in Internet Explorer. In other browsers, this works just fine:

textarea.selectionStart = sta         


        

Answer 1

Try with

function select(e, start, end){
     e.focus();
     if(e.setSelectionRange)
        e.setSelectionRange(start, end);
     else if(e.createTextRange) {
        e = e.createTextRange();
        e.collapse(true);
        e.moveEnd('character', end);
        e.moveStart('character', start);
        e.select();
     }
}
select(document.getElementById('textarea_id'), 5, 10);