[removed] cross browser solution for selecting all text inside a textbox on focus

Question

I\'m after the following functionality:

• user clicks on or tabs into a textbox
• all text in the textbox is selected, unless the textbox already had focu

Answer 1

Just delay it by a millisecond with setTimeout:

$('input[type="text"]').live('focus', function() {
    var inp = this;
    setTimeout(function() {
        inp.select();
    }, 1);
});

http://jsfiddle.net/HmQxZ/14/

What's happening is some other browser event is setting the selection after you've selected the text. So, by waiting a millisecond, you let all the browser events finish, and then select the text. Nothing will undo it now.