How to select all text in contenteditable div?

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I used some code from this thread to come up with my answer. It’s 100% jQuery as you asked for as well. Hope you like it 🙂

jQuery.fn.selectText = function(){
   var doc = document;
   var element = this[0];
   console.log(this, element);
   if (doc.body.createTextRange) {
       var range = document.body.createTextRange();
       range.moveToElementText(element);
       range.select();
   } else if (window.getSelection) {
       var selection = window.getSelection();        
       var range = document.createRange();
       range.selectNodeContents(element);
       selection.removeAllRanges();
       selection.addRange(range);
   }
};

$("button").click(function() {
    $("#editable").selectText();
});​

jsfiddle link.

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