Question

No matter what I do, I can’t get IE to select() the value in a after a “paste” event in canceled.

Look at this URL in IE, and paste anything into the textarea:

http://jsfiddle.net/cfApa/1/

The text should be selected after pasting. This works in Chrome, but can’t figure out how to get select() to work when i’m canceling the paste even in IE:

Answer 1

Try this:

$('textarea').on('paste', function(e) {
    this.value = 'fooo';
    setTimeout(function(){ $(e.target).select(); }, 0);

    return false; 
});

Don’t ask me why it works, I just got curious and found a solution.

It seems that selecting just doesn’t work in the context of the paste event handler, maybe there’s something that happens afterwards in the browser that deselects (though preventDefault still didn’t help)