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

Try ontouchstart instead of onfocus. Onfocus fires approx. 500ms after ontouchend, same as onclick, onmousedown, and onmouseup. See https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/HandlingEvents/HandlingEvents.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006511-SW7 for more details on mouse events.