I'm looking for a way to programatically select all the content inside a TinyMCE editor instance.

The reason I need this is that I'd like it if all the text inside the editor was selected, as soon as someone clicks on it (I'm using TinyMCE in conjunction with JEditable, by the way).

Thanks,
Edan

I'm looking for a way to programatically select all the content inside a TinyMCE editor instance.

The reason I need this is that I'd like it if all the text inside the editor was selected, as soon as someone clicks on it (I'm using TinyMCE in conjunction with JEditable, by the way).

Thanks,
Edan

• javascript
• jquery
• tinymce
• jeditable

2 Answers 2

Assuming you have your TinyMCE editor instance stored in a variable called ed:

ed.selection.select(ed.getBody(), true);

For tinyMCE 4 I'm using the Range Object for selection:

function selectAll(editor) {
    range = editor.dom.createRng();
    range.selectNodeContents(editor.getBody());
    editor.selection.setRng(range);
}

selectAll(tinyMCE.focusedEditor);