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 March 2017.
The Selection.selectAllChildren()
method adds all the
children of the specified node to the selection. Previous selection is lost.
Syntax
js
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
js
const button = document.querySelector("button");
const footer = document.querySelector("footer");
button.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
window.getSelection().selectAllChildren(footer);
});
Result
Specifications
Specification |
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Selection API # dom-selection-selectallchildren |
Browser compatibility
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See also
Selection
, the interface it belongs to.