Keep text selection when focus changes

Question

I have a normal textbox, and a lightbox with a text input.

I want to keep the user\'s selection in the textbox, even when the user focuses on the lightbox\'s text in

Answer 1

From How to preserve text selection when opening a jQuery dialog: you have to preserve selection on blur and restore it on focus:

$("dialog").focus(function() {
  // save the selection
}).blur(function() {
  // set the text selection
});

Setting selection (from jQuery Set Cursor Position in Text Area):

$.fn.selectRange = function(start, end) {
  return this.each(function() {
    if(this.setSelectionRange) {
      this.focus();
      this.setSelectionRange(start, end);
    } else if(this.createTextRange) {
      var range = this.createTextRange();
      range.collapse(true);
      range.moveEnd('character', end);
      range.moveStart('character', start);
      range.select();
    }
  });
};
$('#elem').selectRange(3,5);

Getting selection: http://laboratorium.0xab.cd/jquery/fieldselection/0.1.0/test.html