In Chrome, focusing an HTML text input field selects the contents. How to unselect?

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Focus input field with JQuery without selecting current value text

Using the following code to focus the first field in the form:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("form input:visible:enabled:first").focus();        
});

Why does it select the text in the field? How to focus the input without selecting the text?

Working in Ruby on Rails. Tested on Chrome.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '12 at 20:12

$(document).ready(function(){
   $("form input:visible:enabled:first").focus().val('Yeah');        
});

If you dunno what the value is going to be, you can do:

var $firstInput = $("form input:visible:enabled:first")
$firstInput.focus().val($firstInput.val());

I'm going to try to find a better solution, though.

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