# XML Keeps Selecting Text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-keeps-selecting-text/154457>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 9, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-keeps-selecting-text/154457 "2005-07-09T23:44:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![bpdp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@bpdp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bpdp)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-keeps-selecting-text/154457/1 "2005-07-09T23:44:46Z")

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Hi all,  
I am in need of some help. I made a textArea that displays an XML doc. but when you press the arrow buttons or drag the scroll bar it selects all the text in the textArea. i have made them many times before and never came across this problem.  
parameters:  
editable = false  
html = false  
wordwrap = true

just wondering if anyone can help, or has had this problem before.