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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<head>
<title>Dragging multiline text selection from textarea to block element</title>
<style type="text/css">
div[ondragenter]
{width:300px;
height:100px;
margin-top:20px;
padding:10px;
color:white;
background-color:navy;}
textarea
{width:300px;
height:100px;}
</style>
</head>
<body onload="var t = document.querySelector('textarea');t.select();t.setSelectionRange(24,58)">
<p>
<textarea>
Here is textarea with selection
that spans
three lines. Drag selected text to the blue box.
Copy of selection should end up in the blue box once you drop it there.
</textarea>
</p>
<div
ondragenter="event.preventDefault()"
ondragover="return false"
ondrop="document.querySelector('div').appendChild(document.createTextNode(event.dataTransfer.getData('text/plain')))"
/>
</body>
</html>