Jquery: is there a way to highlight the text of a Div when you click on it?

With Jquery is there a way to highlight/select(like if someone were to select it with the mouse) the text inside of a div that i click on? not a textbox, just a normal div.

i'm trying to make a 'short url' box, where when someone clicks on the textarea, it highlights all the text, but it also needs to NOT allow people to change the text in the textbox, but when a textbox is disabled you can't select any text, so i'm trying to do that, i just thought a div would be easiest.

sorry guys i didn't do a great job of explaining what i meant at first, added info above to clarify.