Deselect contents of a textbox with javascript

Question

I understand that with javascript you can select the contents of a textbox with the following code (in jQuery):

$(\"#txt1\").select();

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Answer 1

To "focus a particular textbox WITHOUT selecting it": I would use the part of the patched jquery plugin jquery-fieldselection

using that you can call

$('#my_text_input').setSelection({"start":0, "end":0}); // leaves the cursor at the left

or use this reduced version that places the cursor at the end of the text (by default)

(function() {
var fieldSelection = {
    setSelection: function() {
        var e = (this.jquery) ? this[0] : this, len = this.val().length || ;
        var args = arguments[0] || {"start":len, "end":len};
        /* mozilla / dom 3.0 */
        if ('selectionStart' in e) {
            if (args.start != undefined) {
                e.selectionStart = args.start;
            }
            if (args.end != undefined) {
                e.selectionEnd = args.end;
            }
            e.focus();
        }
        /* exploder */
        else if (document.selection) {
            e.focus();
            var range = document.selection.createRange();
            if (args.start != undefined) {
                range.moveStart('character', args.start);
                range.collapse();
            }
            if (args.end != undefined) {
                range.moveEnd('character', args.end);
            }
            range.select();
        }
        return this;
    }
};
jQuery.each(fieldSelection, function(i) { jQuery.fn[i] = this; });
})();

used this way:

$('#my_text_input').setSelection(); // leaves the cursor at the right