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Using appendTo() I've successfully gotten a text box to be added when I click an icon when I click an edit button. I'd love to be able to have the text in the text box pre-selected so that the user can just start typing without having to highlight everything to replace it. Any ideas/samples on how to do this?

Thanks.

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Steve,

In the old days, IE had a rather convoluted way to do this while Netscape (iirc) was incapable, but now there's a much friendlier way.

After creating DOM element myTextbox and populating it with your text :

myTextbox.focus();
myTextbox.select();

I'm not sure if this is 100% universal but the major browsers seem to support it (IE, FF, Opera). WebTV is always an unknown quantity. You may therefore like to wrap these statements in a safety clause.

Airshow

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