Selecting text in mobile Safari on iPhone

Question

I\'m trying to make it easy for an iphone user to copy some text to the clipboard in mobile safari. As in the usual \"touch-hold-copy\". There is a specific bit of text I wa

Answer 1

The magic sauce for me was the combination of these three:

onFocus="this.selectionStart=0; this.selectionEnd=this.value.length;" 

onTouchEnd="this.selectionStart=0; this.selectionEnd=this.value.length;" 

onMouseUp="return false"