I've got a textbox (set to readonly) and I need its' contents to be selected for easy copy/paste when it gains focus. Using the code below it only seems to quickly select the text and then unselect it for some reason.
HTML
<input id='thing' type='text' value='some text' readonly='readonly' />
JavaScript
document.getElementById('thing').onfocus = function(){
this.select();
};
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/cfqje/
This seems to be a work around:
<input id='thing' type='text' value='some text' onclick="this.select()" readonly='readonly' />
I guess the problem is that focus doesn't work correctly as the input is readonly.