how to simulate the act of Ctrl+A in an element using jquery or javascript? [duplicate]

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When a user does a specific event, I want to also simulate that they hit Ctrl+A in a textarea element. I know about caret positioning and selecting all text as a separate issue, but I don't want that. I want to be able to do it by just simulating Ctrl+A (using a cross-browser keycode) on that element.

Answer 1

You can do it using

$("#textareaid").select();

Control+A is targeting a selection.. You can't fake input as far as I know.. But you can do actions...