# Add button to select all text in a preformatted block

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-button-to-select-all-text-in-a-preformatted-block/30878>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [July 8, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-button-to-select-all-text-in-a-preformatted-block/30878 "2015-07-08T02:35:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 5:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-button-to-select-all-text-in-a-preformatted-block/30878/3 "2015-07-08T05:17:20Z")

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Sure, I think this would be a cool feature, especially for longer blocks, another one would be “full screen” option for code blocks, which makes reading large code blocks way easier.

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