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selectionStart-End with textareas

May 26, 2023 by Tarik

Try: $(‘#myarea’)[0].selectionStart; Why? A jQuery selector does not return the actual DOM elements but the wrapped jQuery collection. jQuery makes the actual DOM elements accessible as an array, so if you wanted to use the 1st matched element (and in this case, the only one, since it’s by ID), you would do the above.

Get contentEditable caret position

May 18, 2022 by Tarik

The following code assumes: There is always a single text node within the editable <div> and no other nodes The editable div does not have the CSS white-space property set to pre If you need a more general approach that will work content with nested elements, try this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4812022/96100 Code: function getCaretPosition(editableDiv) { var … Read more