It is actually setting the selection, or at least creating a range, as I can do an alert(sel.text);, but the selection isn’t really being changed.

That is, if I Ctrl-C, it is not added to the clipboard. I could use the evil clipboardData = sel.text; command, but I don’t really want to. It’s not really fair to a user to overwrite whatever they had as the clipboard.

I did find another site that might be doing what I need. They use an href="javascript:highlight(0);", which isn’t the right way to do it, but I suspect it’s textarea only, anyway.

Oh, and I apologise to IE users who are also getting the crappy resizing as you type I am getting in the comments box!

Fuck Safari too. But less than IE.

It was selecting the whole lot, just not updating the display to reflect it!

Grr. Minutes wasted.

sel = document.selection.createRange();
div = document.getElementById("id");
sel.moveToElementText(div);

However, this doesn’t seem to work. If only IE had decent JavaScript console support. Then I might be able to do this without having to save a huge file to the server and back again…

sel = window.getSelection();
div = document.getElementById("id");
sel.selectAllChildren(div);

Works a treat in Mozilla.