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  <?xml version="1.0" ?>
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
  <head><title>Select whole text area</title>
  <script type="text/JavaScript">
    function selectAll(strControl) {
      strControl.focus();
      strControl.select();
    }
  </script>
  </head>
  
  <body>
    <form name="myForm" action="">
      <textarea name="myTextArea" rows="5" cols="20">This is some text</textarea>
      <input type="button" name="btnSelectAll" value="Select all"   
             onclick="selectAll(document.myForm.myTextArea);" />
    </form>
  </body>
  </html>
  


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