Quick selection and copy-to-clipboard actions are a convenience for your visitors. This jQuery snippet selects text (outside of an input or textarea, which uses a different method) with a single click.
It’s good for URLs, including shareable or trackback URLs, as well as any snippet that needs to be copied easily (but for which you don’t want to implement a Flash-based solution for copying directly to the clipboard).
$(function() {
function selectText(field) {
if(document.createRange) {
var range = document.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(field);
window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();
window.getSelection().addRange(range);
} else if (field.createTextRange) {
var range = field.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(field);
range.select();
}
field.focus();
}
$('.quick-select').click(function() {
selectText(this);
});
});
Try it on this text right here.