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

Because there is flickering when you use setTimeout, there is another event based solution. This way the 'focus' event attach the 'mouseup' event and the event handler detach itself again.

    function selectAllOnFocus(e) {
    if (e.type == "mouseup") { // Prevent default and detach the handler
        console.debug("Mouse is up. Preventing default.");
        e.preventDefault();
        $(e.target).off('mouseup', selectAllOnFocus);
        return;
    }
    $(e.target).select();
    console.debug("Selecting all text");
    $(e.target).on('mouseup', selectAllOnFocus);
}

Then wire the first event

    $('.varquantity').on('focus', selectAllOnFocus);