Is it possible to restrict the range of select all/Ctrl+A?

Question

I am working on a website where I would like to be able to display a box containing syntax-highlighted source code for the user to copy. When I click on the box, giving it f

Answer 1

You can use the document.createRange(); method to select the text from a particular element. and to handle the ctrl+a you can use the jQuery keydown method and can call the JS code to select the DIV text.

var range = document.createRange();
range.selectNode(document.getElementById(containerid));
window.getSelection().addRange(range);

please see jsfiddle here jsfiddle.