Tersus: Re: How get position curosr from textarea

Re: How get position curosr from textareaDate: Apr 1, 2009Of course. This is simple implementation in HTML<html>
<head>
<title> Test indexOf currsor </title>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function caret(node) {
//node.focus();
/* without node.focus() IE will returns -1 when focus is not on node */
if(node.selectionStart) return node.selectionStart;
else if(!document.selection) return 0;
var c        = "\001";
var sel    = document.selection.createRange();
var dul    = sel.duplicate();
var len    = 0;
dul.moveToElementText(node);
sel.text    = c;
len        = (dul.text.indexOf(c));
sel.moveStart('character',-1);
sel.text    = "";
return len;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

    <div id="testContent">

        <textarea id="textarea" style="width: 80%; height: 100px;"> Some example text ... </textarea>
        <br/>
        <p>Postion cursor: </p><input type="text" id="pz" />

        <script type="text/javascript">

            var indicator = document.getElementById("pz");
            var textarea = document.getElementById("textarea");
            setInterval(function() { indicator.value = caret(textarea);}, 100);
        </script>
    <div>

</body>
</html> Regards PawelSee Also:

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