# TextArea selects all contents when you scroll it

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selects-all-contents-when-you-scroll-it/100967>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 4, 2004, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selects-all-contents-when-you-scroll-it/100967 "2004-02-04T10:19:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selects-all-contents-when-you-scroll-it/100967/1 "2004-02-04T10:19:39Z")

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Has anyone experienced this happening? You’re using the TextArea component … and when you publish the file, you go to scroll your text … and when you release the handler, it selects all your text!!!

Very annoying … doesn’t anyone know WHY or HOW to fix this?

Thanks!