EVENTS - select()

The select() Event gets executed, when the contents of a field (Like an text or textarea field) is selected.

Let us simplify with the below example.

Example :

<html>
  	<head>
    	<title> My First Programme </title>
  	</head>

  	<body>
    	<h1> JQuery </h1>
    		
    	Type Something and select the typed text : <input type = "text"> 	
        
        <p> </p>

      	<script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js"> </script>
	  
      	<script>
      
			$('input').select( function() { 
            	$('p').text("You have selected the text in the input field")
            });
            
      	</script>      
  	</body>
</html>

Output :

So, if you look at the above code, we have an <input> element, that accepts a text.

<input type = "text">

And we have an empty <p> element.

Now, if we take a look at the JQuery statement,

$('input').select( function() {
	$('p').text("You have selected the text in the input field")
});

That locates the <input> element and when you select the text inside the text inside the <input> field, the select() event gets triggered.

$('input').select(...);

And the anonymous function gets executed.

function() {
	$('p').text("You have selected the text in the input field")
}

Displaying the text in <p> element as You have selected the text in the input field.

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