Selecting all text in HTML text input when clicked

I have the following code to display a textbox in a HTML webpage. <input type=”text” id=”userid” name=”userid” value=”Please enter the user ID” /> When the page displays, the text contains the Please enter the user ID message. However, I found that the user needs to click 3 times in order to select all the text … Read more

Get the value in an input text box

What are the ways to get and render an input value using jQuery? Here is one: $(document).ready(function() { $(“#txt_name”).keyup(function() { alert($(this).val()); }); }) <script src=”https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js”></script> <input type=”text” id=”txt_name” /> 13 s 13 //Get var bla = $(‘#txt_name’).val(); //Set $(‘#txt_name’).val(bla);