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

I have run into the same problem. The onfocus event is the right one to trap (ontouchstart isn't triggered if you use the iphone keyboard [next]/[prev] buttons.) If you put an alert(); in your onfocus="" handler, you'll see the alert box pop up. The problem is this.select(); I still haven't found an answer to this, but when/if I do, I'll post it here.