Revisions to Get cursor position (in characters) within a text Input field

improved wording

edited Jan 25, 2018 at 12:54

There is now a nice plugin for this: The Caret Plugin

Then you can callget the position using $("#myTextBox").caret() or set it via $("#myTextBox").caret(position)

There is now a nice plugin for this: The Caret Plugin

Then you can call $("#myTextBox").caret() or set it $("#myTextBox").caret(position)

There is now a nice plugin for this: The Caret Plugin

Then you can get the position using $("#myTextBox").caret() or set it via $("#myTextBox").caret(position)

Replaced link to plugin by one to the jQuery page

edited Jul 26, 2016 at 5:56

There is now a nice plugin for this: The Caret Plugin The Caret Plugin

Then you can call $("#myTextBox").caret() or set it $("#myTextBox").caret(position)

There is now a nice plugin for this: The Caret Plugin

Then you can call $("#myTextBox").caret() or set it $("#myTextBox").caret(position)

There is now a nice plugin for this: The Caret Plugin

Then you can call $("#myTextBox").caret() or set it $("#myTextBox").caret(position)

answered Jan 29, 2014 at 10:28

There is now a nice plugin for this: The Caret Plugin

Then you can call $("#myTextBox").caret() or set it $("#myTextBox").caret(position)

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