highlight and select a text of a input with jQuery

Question

I cannot find a solution in stackoverflow. I have an input filed and a value. I want the value to be selected and highlighted, so the user can easily copy the text. How can I do it with jQuery?

<input value="copy this text easily"  />

Answer 1

Try

$('input').focus()

Check Fiddle

You may need to change the selector though. I wrote a generic selector since there in only 1 input in the example.

Answer 2

With jQuery you can use the select function:

$("input").select();