Javascript: Highlight All Text In Textfield On Focus

Posted in Web Development on April 3st, 2008 | (8) Comments

During my development for the company’s information system, I found that automatically highlight all text in a textfield can help users to easily delete it’s content, rather than have to block the text or use “Ctrl+A”.

I use Javascript event onFocus() and select() function. Here is how to add it on the textfield properties:

<input name=”country” type=”text” id=”country” value=”Highlighted Text” onFocus=”javascript:this.select()”>

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8 Responses to “Javascript: Highlight All Text In Textfield On Focus”

  1. Javascript: Highlight All Text In Textfield On Focus « IT, Translation, Pregnancy & Parenting on 3 Apr 2008 at 3:30 pm #

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  2. Jauhari on 9 Apr 2008 at 9:56 am #

    Jadi pingin coba, sekali sekali dibahas tentang VALIDATION dong mas.. via JS

  3. Arief Fajar Nursyamsu on 9 Apr 2008 at 2:00 pm #

    Insya Alloh saya bahas mas, nanti versi yang bahasa Inggris nitip di tempat sampeyan ya mas :D

  4. G. Barr on 31 Jan 2009 at 11:36 pm #

    Hi,

    Thanks for this simple little tip, will prove useful.

    regards
    George

  5. Joe Belarde on 5 Mar 2010 at 8:39 am #

    Hey, I came across this blog post while searching for help with JavaScript. I have recently changed browsers from Safari to Mozilla Firefox 3.1. Now I seem to have a issue with loading JavaScript. Every time I browse page that needs Javascript, the site freezes and I get a “runtime error javascript.JSException: Unknown name”. I can’t seem to find out how to fix it. Any aid is very appreciated! Thanks

  6. Arief Fajar Nursyamsu on 5 Mar 2010 at 9:44 am #

    Hi Joe,
    Have you try to reinstall Firefox? Or you may try this link: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/javascript.xml

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