Google chrome, infinite loops and selecting text

Question

This question comes with a bit of background. Please see two other questions I\'ve recently posted that relate:

How to select text in a textbox cross-browser
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Answer 1

Put any additional work in the setTimeout function. And add a clearTimeout() before you setTimeout():

var focusTimeout = 0;
$('input[type="text"]').live('focus', function(event) {
    var inp = this;
    clearTimeout(focusTimeout);
    focusTimeout = setTimeout(function() {
        $('#message-container').html($('#message-container').html() + "*\u200b");
        inp.select();
    }, 1);
});

http://jsfiddle.net/XppG9/19/

In Chrome, writing the html to the page is (apparantly) causing the field to lose focus, and select() is causing it to receive focus 1ms later, thus triggering the focus event and causing the infinite loop. Moving the write html call into the function that selects the text seems to do the trick.