Select all text inside EditText when it gets focus

Question

I have an EditText with some dummy text in it  When the user clicks on it I want it to be selected so that when the user starts typing the dummy text gets deleted   How can I achieve this

User · Accepted Answer

You can try in your main xml file   android selectAllOnFocus  true    Or  in Java  use  editText setSelectAllOnFocus true

User · Answer

I know you ve found a solution  but really the proper way to do what you re asking is to just use the android hint attribute in your EditText  This text shows up when the box is empty and not focused  but disappears upon selecting the EditText box

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I tried an above answer and didn t work until I switched the statements  This is what worked for me       myEditText setSelectAllOnFocus true       myEditText setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener              Override         public void onClick View view                onClickMyEditText                          private void onClickMyEditText            if myEditText isFocused             myEditText clearFocus            myEditText requestFocus            else             myEditText requestFocus               myEditText clearFocus                    I had to ask if the focus is on the EditText  and if not request the focus first and then clear it  Otherwise the next times I clicked on the EditText the virtual keyboard would never appear

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Managed it by calling focus and selection on program    editabletext requestFocus    editabletext selectAll

User · Answer

You can also add an OnClick Method to the editText after    editText setSelectAllOnFocus true     and in that    editText clearFocus     editText requestFocus      As soon as you click the editText the whole text is selected

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EditText dummy            android view View OnFocusChangeListener dummy setOnFocusChangeListener new OnFocusChangeListener        public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus           if  hasFocus   amp  amp   isDummyText                  EditText v  selectAll

User · Answer

Just add this to your editText in the  xml file     android selectAllOnFocus  true

User · Answer

SelectAllOnFocus works the first time the EditText gets focus  but if you want to select the text every time the user clicks on it  you need to call editText clearFocus   in between times    For example  if your app has one EditText and one button  clicking the button after changing the EditText leaves the focus in the EditText  Then the user has to use the cursor handle and the backspace key to delete what s in the EditText before they can enter a new value  So call editText clearFocus   in the Button s onClick method

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editText setSelectAllOnFocus true     This works if you want to do it programatically

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This is works for me   myEditText setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener              Override         public void onClick View view                if myEditText isFocused                     myEditText requestFocus                    myEditText clearFocus                    myEditText setSelection myEditText getText   length    0                else                  myEditText requestFocus                    myEditText clearFocus

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Why don t you try android hint  hint  to provide the hint to the user      The  hint  will automatically disappear when the user clicks on the edittextbox  its the proper and best solution

[android] Select all text inside EditText when it gets focus

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