Javascript focus and select not working in FF

Question

Using jQuery, the following is not working in FF, but it is in IE

$(this).focus().select();

I looked around for this and found that you cou

Answer 1

A solution to this that I just found is to use the below code.

[elementHere].setSelectionRange(0, [elementHere].value.length);

According to the Mozilla Developer Network documentation, this selects the text but does not focus it. At least for me, this prevented issues with selecting text inside a focus event handler, since selecting the text does not cause the element containing it to be focused again.