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jquery input select all on focus

I'm using this code to try and select all of the text in the field when a user focuses on the field. What happens is, it selects all for a second, then its unselected and the typing cursor is left where I clicked...

$("input[type=text]").focus(function() {
   $(this).select();
});

I want it all to remain selected.

What browser, it seems to be working OK for me in FF?
Chrome = fail for this one
I was using Chrome, but .click() solves the problem :)
Note: The accepted answer here only solves half the problem. It makes the select work, but makes it difficult to then un-select it with subsequent clicks. A better solution can be found here: stackoverflow.com/questions/3380458/…

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karim79

Try using click instead of focus. It seems to work for both mouse and key events (at least on Chrome/Mac):

jQuery < version 1.7:

$("input[type='text']").click(function () {
   $(this).select();
});

jQuery version 1.7+:

$("input[type='text']").on("click", function () {
   $(this).select();
});

Here is a demo


the problem is that you can no more select part of the text by mouse, once click happens, full text is selected.
Not a viable solution for me. This creates the problem described by Wang.
There is a solution below by Nianpeng that works also with mouse text selection.
@AwQiruiGuo $.fn.on('click',..) can use less memory and work for dynamically added child elements.
This does not work for focusing a field when tabbing.
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Piskvor left the building

I think that what happens is this:

focus()
   UI tasks related to pre-focus
   callbacks
       select()
   UI tasks related to focus (which unselect again)

A workaround may be calling the select() asynchronously, so that it runs completely after focus():

$("input[type=text]").focus(function() { 
    var save_this = $(this);
    window.setTimeout (function(){ 
       save_this.select(); 
    },100);
});

$("input[type=text]").focus(function() { var save_this = $(this);window.setTimeout(function(){ save_this.select(); },100); });
@etienne: Oh, good point: the handling of this is a bit unexpected in such scopes. I'll update the code.
a timeout value of 0 seems ok too, and the "focusin()" function is also working with this method.
yes, you don't even need to set a period. 0 will do fine since timeouts run at the end of the current call stack. this means that focus and click events all fire, and then your function runs
Timeout 0 seems to have the problem that the 'click' event can fire in a later frame, deselecting the box again. I find that timeout 10 seems to work pretty well - no noticeable delay, but more reliable than 0.
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user2072367

I think this is better solution. Unlike simply selecting in onclick event, it doesn't prevent selecting/editing text with mouse. It works with major rendering engines including IE8.

$('input').on('focus', function (e) {
    $(this)
        .one('mouseup', function () {
            $(this).select();
            return false;
        })
        .select();
});

http://jsfiddle.net/25Mab/9/


This only works for existing fields, here is an update for binding it to new input fields: jsfiddle.net
Sometimes focus can be given without a click, and this handles it well. Because of that, this to me is the cleanest answer -- even though there may be some dangling event listeners each time the input is focused and not by a click... much better than setTimeout
This doesn't allow a second click within numeric inputs to select another part of the text with the mouse. Removing the second select() seems to work though.
Even better with an additional $('input[autofocus]').select();
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animatedgif

There are some decent answers here and @user2072367 's is my favorite, but it has an unexpected result when you focus via tab rather than via click. ( unexpected result: to select text normally after focus via tab, you must click one additional time )

This fiddle fixes that small bug and additionally stores $(this) in a variable to avoid redundant DOM selection. Check it out! (:

Tested in IE > 8

$('input').on('focus', function() {
    var $this = $(this)
        .one('mouseup.mouseupSelect', function() {
            $this.select();
            return false;
        })
        .one('mousedown', function() {
            // compensate for untriggered 'mouseup' caused by focus via tab
            $this.off('mouseup.mouseupSelect');
        })
        .select();
});

+1 your's and @user2072367's solutions are the cleanest in this whole thread and I wish there was a way to get the to the top quicker.
Even works if the user tries to select all the text themselves, bravo.
For me this does not work on ie11 on windows 8.1. It does work in ie11 on windows 7 and on windows 10
@LarsThomasBredland I just tried on win 8.1 + ie11 and it works as expected. What "does not work" about it for you?
It just doesn't select anything. (I tested on another win8 and it does work there - same os level and ie version)
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Community

After careful review, I propose this as a far cleaner solution within this thread:

$("input").focus(function(){
    $(this).on("click.a keyup.a", function(e){      
        $(this).off("click.a keyup.a").select();
    });
});

Demo in jsFiddle

The Problem:

Here's a little bit of explanation:

First, let's take a look at the order of events when you mouse or tab into a field. We can log all the relevant events like this:

$("input").on("mousedown focus mouseup click blur keydown keypress keyup change",
              function(e) { console.log(e.type); });

https://i.imgur.com/JbU30dD.png

Note: I've changed this solution to use click rather than mouseup as it happens later in the event pipeline and seemed to be causing some issues in firefox as per @Jocie's comment

Some browsers attempt to position the cursor during the mouseup or click events. This makes sense since you might want to start the caret in one position and drag over to highlight some text. It can't make a designation about the caret position until you have actually lifted the mouse. So functions that handle focus are fated to respond too early, leaving the browser to override your positioning.

But the rub is that we really do want to handle the focus event. It lets us know the first time that someone has entered the field. After that point, we don't want to continue to override user selection behavior.

The Solution:

Instead, within the focus event handler, we can quickly attach listeners for the click (click in) and keyup (tab in) events that are about to fire.

Note: The keyup of a tab event will actually fire in the new input field, not the previous one

We only want to fire the event once. We could use .one("click keyup), but this would call the event handler once for each event type. Instead, as soon as either mouseup or keyup is pressed we'll call our function. The first thing we'll do, is remove the handlers for both. That way it won't matter whether we tabbed or moused in. The function should execute exactly once.

Note: Most browsers naturally select all text during a tab event, but as animatedgif pointed out, we still want to handle the keyup event, otherwise the mouseup event will still be lingering around anytime we've tabbed in. We listen to both so we can turn off the listeners as soon as we've processed the selection.

Now, we can call select() after the browser has made its selection so we're sure to override the default behavior.

Finally, for extra protection, we can add event namespaces to the mouseup and keyup functions so the .off() method doesn't remove any other listeners that might be in play.

Tested in IE 10+, FF 28+, & Chrome 35+

Alternatively, if you want to extend jQuery with a function called once that will fire exactly once for any number of events:

$.fn.once = function (events, callback) {
    return this.each(function () {
        var myCallback = function (e) {
            callback.call(this, e);
            $(this).off(events, myCallback);
        };
        $(this).on(events, myCallback);
    });
};

Then you can simplify the code further like this:

$("input").focus(function(){
    $(this).once("click keyup", function(e){      
        $(this).select();
    });
});

Demo in fiddle


In Firefox 31 on Windows your code only selects the text on every other click when you click between the two text boxes
@Jocie, I'm not sure why it is alternating, but it looks like FF handles the text selection in the click event which is further down the pipeline than mouseup. Since we want to handle the end of the selection as late as possible to give us the most chance of overriding the browser, using click instead of mouseup should do the trick. Tested in FF, Chrome, and IE.
Thank you! Finally a solution that really works and in all browsers!
Yes! This worked for me too! Thank you. This should have been the official answer
@RiZKiT, one won't cut it as "The handler is executed once per element per event type. It will automatically turn off the event that fired it, but the other will still be lingering around, and off takes care of both anyway. See my question: function that will fire exactly once for any number of events
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ErichBSchulz

This would do the work and avoid the issue that you can no longer select part of the text by mouse.

$("input[type=text]").click(function() {
    if(!$(this).hasClass("selected")) {
        $(this).select();
        $(this).addClass("selected");
    }
});
$("input[type=text]").blur(function() {
    if($(this).hasClass("selected")) {
        $(this).removeClass("selected");
    }
});

Important to keep ability to select part of text with mouse. I am using this and its A1
Too much going on here, use user2072367's focus/mouseup solution
@George user2072367's is pretty good, but it has some serious flaws. Check out my solution (:
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Colin Breame

The problem with most of these solutions is that they do not work correctly when changing the cursor position within the input field.

The onmouseup event changes the cursor position within the field, which is fired after onfocus (at least within Chrome and FF). If you unconditionally discard the mouseup then the user cannot change the cursor position with the mouse.

function selectOnFocus(input) {
    input.each(function (index, elem) {
        var jelem = $(elem);
        var ignoreNextMouseUp = false;

        jelem.mousedown(function () {
            if (document.activeElement !== elem) {
                ignoreNextMouseUp = true;
            }
        });
        jelem.mouseup(function (ev) {
            if (ignoreNextMouseUp) {
                ev.preventDefault();
                ignoreNextMouseUp = false;
            }
        });
        jelem.focus(function () {
            jelem.select();
        });
    });
}
selectOnFocus($("#myInputElement"));

The code will conditionally prevent the mouseup default behaviour if the field does not currently have focus. It works for these cases:

clicking when field is not focused

clicking when field has focus

tabbing into the field

I have tested this within Chrome 31, FF 26 and IE 11.


This works perfectly for click events, but if I use tab to move to the next input field I see that the content gets selected and de-selected just later
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anihilnine

This version works on ios and also fixes standard drag-to-select on windows chrome

var srcEvent = null;

$("input[type=text],input[type=number]")

    .mousedown(function (event) {
        srcEvent = event;
    })

    .mouseup(function (event) {
        var delta = Math.abs(event.clientX - srcEvent.clientX) 
                  + Math.abs(event.clientY - srcEvent.clientY);

        var threshold = 2;
        if (delta <= threshold) {
                   try {
                        // ios likes this but windows-chrome does not on number fields
                        $(this)[0].selectionStart = 0;
                        $(this)[0].selectionEnd = 1000;
                    } catch (e) {
                        // windows-chrome likes this
                        $(this).select();
                    }
        }
    });

http://jsfiddle.net/Zx2sc/2/


Edited to add ugly try/catch to appease browsers
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RafaelTSCS

Found a awesome solution reading this thread

$(function(){

    jQuery.selectText('input:text');
    jQuery.selectText('input:password');

});

jQuery.extend( {
    selectText: function(s) { 
        $(s).live('focus',function() {
            var self = $(this);
            setTimeout(function() {self.select();}, 0);
        });
    }
});

... which is essentially the same answer as Piskvor's.
don't forget about all the other HTML5 text types, e.g. 'input[type=email]'
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Aaron

I'm coming from late 2016 and this code just works in recent versions of jquery (jquery-2.1.3.js in this case).

if ($(element).is("input")) {
    $(element).focus(function () {
        $(element).select();
    });
}

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R.P. Pedraza

I always use requestAnimationFrame() to jump over internal post-event mechanisms and this works perfectly in Firefox. Haven't tested in Chrome.

$("input[type=text]").on('focus', function() {
    requestAnimationFrame(() => $(this).select());
});

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GusDeCooL

i using FF 16.0.2 and jquery 1.8.3, all the code in the answer didn't work. I use code like this and work.

$("input[type=text]").focus().select();

This doesn't answer the question, which is how to select the contents of an input box when the user focuses the field. This will immediately focus and select the code, without user input.
@saluce i don't understand what you mean? what the questioner want is when he select the field, all the current text is selected. And my code should did that. I even use it for my project, as the time when i write this answer.
This code will focus and select everything when it runs, but the code, in and of itself, is not tied to a user-generated event, such as clicking on the textbox. For example, $("input[type=text]").on('click', function () { $(this).focus.select(); }) is causing the focus and selecting to happen when the user clicks the box, because it is executed when the user clicks the box. Without the event handler, the code doesn't answer the question, hence the downvote and comment. Basically, you got the "all the current text is selected" but not the "when he selects the field" part.
@GusDeCooL funnily enough (even though this isn't exactly what he asked) I wanted to same result as you did on this :)
t
tectiv3

Or you can just use <input onclick="select()"> Works perfect.


no it doesn't. it works for selecting the whole. but try to select a part of the text manually, you won't b able to do it.
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asimov
var timeOutSelect;
$("input[type=text]").focus(function() { 
        var save_this = $(this);
        clearTimeout(timeOutSelect);
        timeOutSelect = window.setTimeout (function(){ 
                save_this.select(); 
        }, 100);
});

Use clearTimeout for more security if you switch quickly between two input.. clearTimeout clean the old timeout...


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Tobi G.

Works great with the native JavaScript select().

$("input[type=text]").focus(function(event) {
   event.currentTarget.select();
});

or in general:

$("input[type=text]")[0].select()

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Rubén Ruíz

You can use simple code:

$('#idname').select();

With the use of jQuery obviously
t
trikon
<script>$.ready( $("input[type=text]").attr("onclick" , "this.select()"));<script>

This will probably be marked as a low quality answer because it doesn't have any explanation of what's going on.
Your $.ready is not correct. You need to pass a function to it to make it delay the attr until the document is ready. You are doing it immediately then passing the element collection to $.ready.
Also, avoid 'onclick', particularly this way. Use addEventListener.