.SELECT() DOES NOT SELECT INPUT CONTENT ON IPHONE BROWSER

[anonymous]

Hi

I'm running Safari and Chrome on Ios 6.0 and this following code doesn't work. It work on normal browser like firefox chrome on PC ...

$("input[id='"+iRow+"_"+"nom_client"+"']","#navgrid").bind('focus',function(){

$(this).select();

});

[dmethvin]

doesn't work*

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[barden <barden.q@…>]

Ok it's done, here the link : ​http://jsfiddle.net/5AGCb/

[bblackwood]

This is actually an issue with mobile safari (not sure about chrome), not with jQuery. I filed a bug with Apple a while ago and they responded that it was intended behavior. There is no public version of bugs submitted to Apple (that I know of), but here was the bug submitted and response received:

A page like the following will select the text inside the input on desktop safari on load:

​http://jsfiddle.net/fzDHJ/

On mobile safari, nothing happens. Selection is not visibly affected, but neither is an error raised.

Response from Apple: Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended based on the following information:

The selected element in the DOM is indeed updated. But "selecting" something in the sense of showing a cursor and displaying the keyboard requires explicit user interaction on iOS and cannot be done programmatically.

[dmethvin]

Thanks bblackwood! I just tested this modified test case on Android 2.3.4 (the phone I have handy) and it works correctly. I have incorporated several different events and selection methods to see if it's jQuery doing the dirty or not.

​http://jsfiddle.net/5AGCb/4/show

barden, can you run this case and see if any of them select the text? If not this ticket is probably cantfix from our end.

[barden <barden.q@…>]

Thanks for your answers. Nothing works... I think there is no solution. Maybe in next version of iOS ?

[anonymous]

Replying to barden <barden.q@…>:

Thanks for your answers. Nothing works... I think there is no solution. Maybe in next version of iOS ?

What I was able to do was use selectionStart and selectionEnd. It's not pretty, but it might get you what you need.

​http://jsfiddle.net/5AGCb/5/