Question

I have an input field that was written with onfocus="this.value='' , but recently decided to change it to onfocus="this.select() . The trouble is that when I went to change it, it still clears! I searched my entire javascript library, html, everything looking for what could be causing that. Nothing is being called of the likes.

I tried clearing my cache. And I tried searching for value='' and cl(

Anyone know how I could debug this? Or at worse, override what it’s doing to make it do what I want?

My code :

<input type="text" value="Enter Keyword or Co. Name" name="q" id="q" class="foobar">

I have also tried :

<input type="text" value="Enter Keyword or Co. Name" name="q" id="q" class="foobar" onfocus="this.select();">

Thanks!

Answer 1

 $(function() { 
  $('input[type=text]').focus(function() {
     $(this).trigger('select');
  });
});

You can test it here