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document.setSelectionBounds()

#### Availability

Flash MX 2004; bContactSensitiveSelection parameter added in Flash 8.

#### Usage

document.setSelectionBounds(boundingRectangle [, bContactSensitiveSelection])

#### Parameters

boundingRectangle A rectangle that specifies the new location and size of the selection. For information on the format of boundingRectangle, see document.addNewRectangle() (../Document_object/docume10.md).
bContactSensitiveSelection A Boolean value that specifies whether the Contact Sensitive selection mode is enabled (true) or disabled (false) during object selection. The default value is false.

#### Returns

Nothing.

#### Description

Method; moves and resizes the selection in a single operation.
If you pass a value for bContactSensitiveSelection, it is valid only for this method and doesn’t affect the Contact Sensitive selection mode for the document (see fl.contactSensitiveSelection (../flash_object_(fl)/fl14.md)).

#### Example

The following example moves the current selection to 10, 20 and resizes it to 100, 200:

javascript
var l = 10; 
var t = 20;
fl.getDocumentDOM().setSelectionBounds({left:l, top:t, right:(100+l), bottom:(200+t)});

#### See also

document.selection (../Document_object/docum430.md), document.setSelectionRect() (../Document_object/docu9689.md)