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I have an editable text field which the user has entered a value into.

When my validation fails I want to select all text within the field so that any keypress from the user will overwrite the existing contents of the field.

By 'select all text' I mean similar to the selection like the blue overlay you get like when you do a select and copy with the mouse.

Focus "fieldName" is easy enough, but can't yet find a method to select the field contents.

Thanks!

Hi xfrios,

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select text of fld "field name here"
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Best

Klaus

Thanks! That works great.

I'm having a hard time finding things in the documentation.

Can someone point me to where that is documented?

Found it in the dictionary under 'commands'. Thanks again!