Returns or sets a Variant that represents the value associated with the onselectstart event. For example, the Variant can represent a macro or procedure call that executes when the event has occurred. Read/write.
expression.onselectstart
expression Required. An expression that returns a DispFPHTMLDocument object.
The following example, which appears embedded in the <head> section of an HTML document, displays a message to the user when the user selects text from within the current <p> element containing the onselectstart="DisplayMessage" attribute in the current page.
<head>
<title>onselectstart Example</title>
<script id=clientEventHandlersVBS language=vbscript>
<!--
Sub DisplayMessage
'Displays message to user
MsgBox "This message is displayed when the user selects text from within the <p> element in the current document."
End Sub
-->
</script>
</head>
The <p> section code below calls the DisplayMessage procedure located in the <head> section of the document. When the user selects text from within the <p> element in the document, a message will be displayed.
<body>
<p onselectstart = "DisplayMessage">Select this text to view a message.</p>
</body>
The following line of code sets the onselectstart attribute to the DisplayMessage procedure call. The index value zero (0) denotes the <p> tag as the only <p> element in the current page and the first <p> element in the all collection.
ActiveDocument.body.all.tags("p").item(0).onselectstart = "Display Message"