How to select all text in contenteditable div?

Before this is flagged as a duplicate, I want you to realize that no one has actually provided a good answer for this specific question. In select all text in contenteditable div when it focus/click, the accepted answer and Tim Down's answer are both not helpful, as they only work when the element is already focused. In my case, I want all the text in the contenteditable div to be selected after the click of a button, even if the div was not focused beforehand.

How could I do this?

Solution 1:

I used some code from this thread to come up with my answer. It's 100% jQuery as you asked for as well. Hope you like it :)

jQuery.fn.selectText = function(){
   var doc = document;
   var element = this[0];
   console.log(this, element);
   if (doc.body.createTextRange) {
       var range = document.body.createTextRange();
       range.moveToElementText(element);
       range.select();
   } else if (window.getSelection) {
       var selection = window.getSelection();        
       var range = document.createRange();
       range.selectNodeContents(element);
       selection.removeAllRanges();
       selection.addRange(range);
   }
};

$("button").click(function() {
    $("#editable").selectText();
});​

jsfiddle link.

Solution 2:

For example in next scenario if user set focus into editable div (with mouse, keyboard or by clicking a button) then content of editable div is selected.

<div id="editable" style=" border:solid 1px #D31444" contenteditable="true" 
    onfocus="document.execCommand('selectAll', false, null);">
  12 some text...
</div>
    
<button onclick="document.getElementById('editable').focus();" >Click me</button>

On JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/QKUZz/

Solution 3:

Great function.

I've adapted it to enable full selection of text across any number of editable divs via a class, whether clicked directly, or tabbed to:

$.fn.selectText = function(){
    var doc = document;
    var element = this[0];
    //console.log(this, element);
    if (doc.body.createTextRange) {
        var range = document.body.createTextRange();
        range.moveToElementText(element);
        range.select();
    } else if (window.getSelection) {
        var selection = window.getSelection();        
        var range = document.createRange();
        range.selectNodeContents(element);
        selection.removeAllRanges();
        selection.addRange(range);
    }
};

$(".editable").on("focus", function () {
    $(this).selectText();
});
$(".editable").on("click", function () {
    $(this).selectText();
});
$('.editable').mouseup(function(e){
    e.stopPropagation();
    e.preventDefault();
    // maximize browser compatability
    e.returnValue = false;
    e.cancelBubble = true;
    return false; 
});

HTML:

<div class="editable" style="border:dotted 1px #ccc;" contenteditable="true">01 text...</div>
<div class="editable" style="border:dotted 1px #ccc;" contenteditable="true">02 text...</div>
<div class="editable" style="border:dotted 1px #ccc;" contenteditable="true">03 text...</div>

FIDDLE:

http://jsfiddle.net/tw9jwjbv/

Solution 4:

Chrome does select everything, so I just added RAF to work around it:

requestAnimationFrame(() => document.execCommand('selectAll'));

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/0aqptw8m/