how to select the content of a focused text

Question

I have a <input type="text" value="Hi! Enter Here" >

How to open this in selected mode and cursor on the input field.

We just start writting into it

Is this question incomplete? Regardless, this might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985272/jquery-selecting-text-in-an-element-akin-to-highlighting-with-your-mouse — jbrookover, Apr 07 '11 at 11:55
Please be sure your users would appreciate this auto-focus behaviour, I recall *loathing* Google's search page as my home-page simply because I'd start typing with the caret in the address bar and find at least half the characters of the URL in the search box... — David Thomas, Apr 07 '11 at 11:58

S L · Answer 1 · 2011-04-07T12:35:03.230

2

use jquery focus() function

$('input').focus();

Or better

<input type="text" value="Hi! Enter Here" id="someid">

and

$('#someid').focus();

check working example here.

For select and focus

$('#someid').focus().select();

or

$('#someid').focus(function (){$(this).select();});

edited Apr 07 '11 at 12:35

answered Apr 07 '11 at 11:54

S L

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '11 at 11:53

1

$("input").focus();

answered Apr 07 '11 at 11:53

Peeter

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 07 '11 at 11:55

1

Set the id of the input

<input type="text" id="myText" value="Hi! Enter Here" >

Then add this jQuery

$(function() {
  $("#myText").focus();
});

answered Apr 07 '11 at 11:55

curtisk

3 Answers3