title: jQuery .select works, but Javascript .select doesnt
body: <p>I am building a mobile site for a Motorola / IE 6 device.</p>
  
  <p>For some reason that I can not come up with, jQuery's .select() function is working, but directly calling it in javascript is not.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type="text" id="lid" value="" class="as_done"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The jQuery way that works is this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#lid').select();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The way that isn't working is this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>document.getElementById('lid').select();
  </code></pre>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p>This has me all sorts of confused. Any ideas as to why this is?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I am not trying to do anything in jQuery. I am just trying to select the text inside the input box. I shouldn't need jQuery to do this, but the standard way is not working. <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_text_select.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_text_select.asp</a></p>