Javascript to pre-select textarea on page load

Question

I have a page that has a textarea, when the page is loaded, I want to pre-select the textarea(like twitter.com does), so the user does not have to click on it. Do you know how to do that?

Previously thanks!

Rodrigo Alves Vieira.

Answer 1

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#text-area-id').focus();
});

check here: http://jsfiddle.net/jxrS7/