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I have the following code to display a textbox in a HTML webpage.
<input type="text" id="userid" name="userid" value="Please enter the user ID" /> When the page displays, the text contains the Please enter the user ID message. However, I found that the user needs to click 3 times in order to select all the text (in this case it is Please enter the user ID).
Is it possible to select the entire text with only one click?
Edit:
Sorry, I forgot to say: I must use the input type="text"
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HTML | DOM Input Text select() Method The DOM Input select() method selects all the text content of a textarea or an input element which contains the text field. Syntax: element. select();
The * selector selects all elements. The * selector can also select all elements inside another element (See "More Examples").
If you only want to style a specific input type, you can use attribute selectors: input[type=text] - will only select text fields. input[type=password] - will only select password fields. input[type=number] - will only select number fields.
You can use this javascript snippet:
<input onClick="this.select();" value="Sample Text" /> But apparently it doesn't work on mobile Safari. In those cases you can use:
<input onClick="this.setSelectionRange(0, this.value.length)" value="Sample Text" /> If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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