Selection: selectAllChildren() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The Selection.selectAllChildren() method adds all the children of the specified node to the selection. Previous selection is lost.

Syntax

selectAllChildren(parentNode)

Parameters

parentNode: All children of parentNode will be selected. parentNode itself is not part of the selection.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

HTML

html

<main>
  <button>Select Footer</button>
  <p>Welcome to my website.</p>
  <p>I hope you enjoy your visit.</p>
</main>
<footer>
  <address>webmaster@example.com</address>
  <p>© 2019</p>
</footer>

JavaScript

const button = document.querySelector("button");
const footer = document.querySelector("footer");

button.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
  window.getSelection().selectAllChildren(footer);
});

Result

Specifications

Specification
Selection API # dom-selection-selectallchildren