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From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/824833/how-to-preserve-text-selection-when-opening-a-jquery-dialog: you have to preserve selection on blur and restore it on focus:

$("dialog").focus(function() {
  // save the selection
}).blur(function() {
  // set the text selection
});

Setting selection (from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499126/jquery-set-cursor-position-in-text-area):

$.fn.selectRange = function(start, end) {
  return this.each(function() {
    if(this.setSelectionRange) {
      this.focus();
      this.setSelectionRange(start, end);
    } else if(this.createTextRange) {
      var range = this.createTextRange();
      range.collapse(true);
      range.moveEnd('character', end);
      range.moveStart('character', start);
      range.select();
    }
  });
};
$('#elem').selectRange(3,5);

Getting selection: http://laboratorium.0xab.cd/jquery/fieldselection/0.1.0/test.html

Nickolay 2009-10-20 07:00:49

Ok, I'm finally getting into this, but am stuck with IE vs FF. The above is pure IE - anyone have any FF pointers?

nfm 2009-10-28 00:51:06

What exactly doesn't work in Firefox? I don't see why the first snippet wouldn't, just tried the second and it works...

Nickolay 2009-10-28 07:19:12

My mistake - FF executes the `if`, MSIE the `else`.

nfm 2009-10-30 01:52:42

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