现场演示

<input id="my_input" style="width: 400px; height: 30px;" value="some text to select">
<br>
<button id="select-bn" style="width: 100px; height: 30px; margin-top: 20px;cursor:pointer;">Select all</button>
<br><br>
OR 
<br><br>
Click to copy
<br><br>
<input id="my_input_copy" style="width: 400px; height: 30px;" value="some text to select and copy">
<br>
<button id="select-bn-copy" style="width: 170px; height: 30px; margin-top: 20px;cursor:pointer;">Click copy text</button>


<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).on('click', '#select-bn', function() {
  $("#my_input").select();
});


//click to select and copy to clipboard

var text_copy_bn = document.getElementById("select-bn-copy");
text_copy_bn.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
  var copy_text = document.getElementById("my_input_copy");
  copy_text.focus();
  copy_text.select();
  try {
    var works = document.execCommand('copy');
    var msg = works ? 'Text copied!' : 'Could not copy!';
    alert(msg);
  } catch (err) {
    alert('Sorry, could not copy');
  }
});
</script>

之前发布的解决方案有两个怪癖:

在Chrome中，通过.select()选择不粘-添加一个轻微的超时解决了这个问题。 不可能在聚焦后将光标放置在所需的点上。

这里有一个完整的解决方案，选择焦点上的所有文本，但允许在焦点后选择特定的游标点。

$(function () {
    var focusedElement;
    $(document).on('focus', 'input', function () {
        if (focusedElement == this) return; //already focused, return so user can now place cursor at specific point in input.
        focusedElement = this;
        setTimeout(function () { focusedElement.select(); }, 100); //select all text in any field on focus for easy re-entry. Delay sightly to allow focus to "stick" before selecting.
    });
});

你可以使用文档。execCommand(所有主要浏览器都支持)

document.execCommand("selectall", null, false);

选择当前聚焦元素中的所有文本。

更新2021:execCommand现在已弃用。

说实话，这可能是最好的选择，因为它是一个老的IE API，已经被其他浏览器采用了，使用它总是有点奇怪。尽管如此，有一个解决方案可以同时处理<input>字段和可满足元素就很好了。

.select()可能是目前<input>字段的最佳方式。

对于contenteditable，现代的解决方案是使用range API。

以下是Shoban回答的可重复使用版本:

<input type="text" id="userid" name="userid"
 value="Please enter the user ID" onfocus="Clear(this);"
/>

function Clear(elem)
{
elem.value='';
}

这样就可以为多个元素重用clear脚本。

If you are just trying to have placeholder text that gets replaced when a user selects the element then it is obviously best practice to use placeholder attribute nowadays. However, if you want to select all of the current value when a field gains focus then a combination of @Cory House and @Toastrackenigma answers seems to be most canonical. Use focus and focusout events, with handlers that set/release the current focus element, and select all when focused. An angular2/typescript example is as follows (but would be trivial to convert to vanilla js):

模板:

<input type="text" (focus)="focus()" (focusout)="focusout()" ... >

组件:

private focused = false;

public focusout = (): void => {
    this.focused = false;
};

public focus = (): void => {
    if(this.focused) return;
    this.focused = true;

    // Timeout for cross browser compatibility (Chrome)
    setTimeout(() => { document.execCommand('selectall', null, false); });
};

你可以为HTMLElement使用JavaScript的.select()方法:

<label for="userid">用户ID <input onClick="this.select();" value="Please enter the user ID" ID ="userid" /> .

但显然它在移动版Safari上不起作用。在这些情况下，你可以使用:

<input onClick="this.setSelectionRange(0, this.value.length)" value="Sample Text" id="userid" />