how to select all text in textarea on focus (in safari)

Question

I can't work out why I can't get the the content of a textarea to be selected when the textarea receives focus.

Please visit a live example here: http://jsfiddle.net/mikkelbreum/aSvst/1

Using jQuery, this is my code. (IN SAFARI) It makes the text selected in case of the click event, but not the focus event:

$('textarea.automarkup')
.mouseup(function(e){
    // fixes safari/chrome problem
    e.preventDefault();
})
.focus(function(e){
    $(this).select();
})
.click(function(e){
    $(this).select();
});

Answer 1

The simplest thing to do is to combine your existing code with a timer, since the focus event is generally too early in WebKit:

jsFiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/NWaav/2/

Code:

$('textarea.automarkup').focus(function() {
    var $this = $(this);

    $this.select();

    window.setTimeout(function() {
        $this.select();
    }, 1);

    // Work around WebKit's little problem
    function mouseUpHandler() {
        // Prevent further mouseup intervention
        $this.off("mouseup", mouseUpHandler);
        return false;
    }

    $this.mouseup(mouseUpHandler);
});

Answer 2

Tim Down's answer got me close, but it still didn't work when clicking & dragging in Chrome, so I did this (Coffeescript).

$.fn.extend
    copyableInput: ->
        @.each ->
            $input = $(this)

            # Prevent the input from being edited (but allow it to be selected)
            $input.attr 'readonly', "readonly"

            if $input.is 'textarea'
                $input.unbind('focus').focus ->
                    input = $(this).select()
                    $input.data 'selected', true

                    setTimeout ->
                        input.select()
                    , 0

                # Work around WebKit's little problem
                $input.bind 'mousedown mouseup', (e) ->
                    $input.select()

                    if $input.data('selected') == true
                        e.preventDefault()
                        return false


                $input.unbind('blur').blur ->
                    $input.data 'selected', false

            else
                # Select all the text when focused (I'm intentionally using click for inputs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3150275/jquery-input-select-all-on-focus)
                $input.unbind('click').click ->
                    input = $(this).select();

                    setTimeout ->
                        input.select()
                    , 0