Selecting text in a field

Good morning everyone
I'm playing around with a textfield today where I want to have some default text showing by default and when I go into the textfield box, the text would all be selected by default so that the user as an easy time removing it from there.
Right now, I add my values to the object.default ="please choose one". That works ok, now how can I have the text selected when user puts the focus in that textbox? I cant seem to find anything that can do that.
Does anyone have an idea if that's doable or not?
thank you so much again.
Pat_rick

Hi there,
there is an easy way to do this without having to select/deleting the text in the textfield
it is called ghost text, it is simply a display pattern for fields when they equal a null value..
just go in that textfield you are talking about, in the Object properties / Field tab click on the Pattern button..
once in the Pattern dialog box, make sure you are in the display tab,
then under Pattern, just write in the textbox : null{'Please choose one'}
This should do the trick
Hope this help!

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