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Description: Use these instructions to create a 'grab text' option adjacent to your textarea within your forms. You can use any of the 3 options, link, button, or image. See the example in the form below.
Directions: Read through the explanation then grab the code for your pages. Use the 'Grab Text' buttons to select the code within the adjacent textarea. Then use Control-C or Edit -> Copy to buffer the text for pasting into your document.

Step 1: The first thing you need to do is setup some JavaScript in the HEAD of your HTML document that will do the 'grabbing'. The function will take whatever form field is passed and set the focus to it then select the text within it.

Then use Control-C to copy the text into your web page.

Step 2: The second thing you need to do is setup the link that will pass the form field data to the JavaScript. It is important to follow this step carefully. You can see in the example link below the JavaScript call javascript:aceGrabText(document.form1.field1). The important part of this call is the "form1" and the "field1" values. These actually tell the JavaScript what form and field will be "grabbed". The textarea resides in a form, type the form name in place of the "form1" name below. Then the textarea itself has a name, type that in place of the "field1" name.

Note: You can add as many links as you want, as many forms and textarea fields you have. Simply change the form name and field name accordingly. They all share the same JavaScript function.

Link Text Option
Then use Control-C to copy the text into your web page.

Button Option
Then use Control-C to copy the text into your web page.

Image Option
Then use Control-C to copy the text into your web page.

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