[removed] cross browser solution for selecting all text inside a textbox on focus

Question

I\'m after the following functionality:

• user clicks on or tabs into a textbox
• all text in the textbox is selected, unless the textbox already had focu

Answer 1

You should remember to do a return false; event.stopPropagation(); event.preventDefault() like so:

$('input[type="text"]').live('click', function (event) {
    this.select();
    event.stopPropagation();
    event.preventDefault();
    return false;
});

http://jsfiddle.net/7rYLV/