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

Rather than selecting and then deselecting, why not just temporarily store a boolean on the dom element?

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

 //code....

 $("#txt1").skipFocus = true;
 $("#txt1").focus();