Selecting text on focus using jQuery not working in Safari and Chrome

Question

I have the following jQuery code (similar to this question) that works in Firefox and IE, but fails (no errors, just doesn\'t work) in Chrome and Safari. Any ideas for a wo

Answer 1

This works fine for input type="text" elements. What kind of element is #souper_fancy?

$("#souper_fancy").focus(function() {
    $(this).select();
});