Accessing selected text

[Guest]

How can i retrieve the value of highlighted text within a text box?

thank you.

 

[Steph.]

Textbox.SelectedText

Steph.

 

[leighghunt]

I think you want to use:

TextBox.SelectedText();

HTH
Leigh.

 

[Nikola Bucic]

How can i retrieve the value of highlighted text within a text box?

thank you.

Simply you can do "textbox_name.SelectedText" without quotes

 

[leighghunt]

Ooops - as Steph and Nikola have stated - use the property syntax and
not method call.

 

[Guest]

???

I get the error below when i try the code you've all suggested.

Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox' does not contain a definition for 'SelectedText'

Should textbox_name.SelectedText be used in the codebehind? javascript?

thanks