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I cannot find a solution in stackoverflow. I have an input filed and a value. I want the value to be selected and highlighted, so the user can easily copy the text. How can I do it with jQuery?

<input value="copy this text easily"  />
user2580777
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  • What exactly do you want to do? Create an `` element and give it a `value`? – Seth Jul 19 '13 at 00:25
  • possible dupe of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480735/select-all-contents-of-textbox-when-it-receives-focus-javascript-or-jquery – kapa Jun 04 '14 at 11:41

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With jQuery you can use the select function:

$("input").select();
Shawn31313
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Try 

$('input').focus()

Check Fiddle

You may need to change the selector though. I wrote a generic selector since there in only 1 input in the example.

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