# textArea component selects all text while scrolling

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-component-selects-all-text-while-scrolling/219034>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 13, 2007, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-component-selects-all-text-while-scrolling/219034 "2007-03-13T11:03:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![sumo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/sumo/32/1950_2.png) [@sumo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sumo)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-component-selects-all-text-while-scrolling/219034/1 "2007-03-13T11:03:02Z")

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Hi all!

I have a problem with textArea component. Whenever I press the scrollbar down and release it, all text inside my textArea get selected. This is very annoying. Does anybody know why this is happening? I’m using Flash 8.

-sumo-