Question

I have an input (text field) in update panel, and it autopostbacks after each change of text. I can keep focus on the same text field, but i can’t get rid of text higlight which appears after calling document.getElementById(‘myTextField’).focus().
This solution seemed to be the most accurate:

if (window.getSelection) {
    window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();
} else if (document.selection) {
    document.selection.empty();
}

But it has one problem. Input remains focused, but i can’t write text. I have to click on it before writing.

Answer 1

You can do it if you reset your value after focus, i.e.

HTML

<input id="myTextField" type="text" value="SomeValue" />​

JS

var myInput=document.getElementById('myTextField');
var myInput_value=myInput.value;
myInput.focus();
myInput.value=myInput_value;​

Working Example.