# Perspective Table - onEditCellStart

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-oneditcellstart/37315>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 3, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-oneditcellstart/37315 "2020-08-03T14:28:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![djones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@djones](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/djones)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-oneditcellstart/37315/1 "2020-08-03T14:28:38Z")

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I’d like to highlight the contents of a cell when it opens to be edited. I am pretty sure I need to use the onEditCellStart event, but cannot figure out how to select the text in the cell being edited.

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**Author:** ![jcaudle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jcaudle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jcaudle)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-oneditcellstart/37315/2 "2021-12-07T18:43:23Z")

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I would like to have this also. The Perspective editable table is not very intuitive involving lots of double clicking and enter pressing to change values.

Something like onEditCellStart send “Control+A” would be a start.