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Possible Duplicate: jQuery Set Cursor Position in Text Area When an input with text is focused, the cursor begins at the end of the text on the right side. How can I make the cursor locate at the ...

Update: I am sorry for not making it clear - i do not mean getting the text, i meant emulate the effect as if the user had double-clicked on a word in the text area. Supposed i have a textarea that ...

I have a textarea that when hovered, I would like the caret to follow the cursor. It would be like if I clicked the textarea every time I moved my mouse. Here is my current js: $("textarea").on("...

The code for my TextBoxAreaFor<> text area (for some reason) puts the cursor at the end of the text area and not at the start like a TextBoxFor<> does. How do I get the cursor to be placed at ...

Does anybody know how to move the keyboard caret in a textbox to a particular position? For example, if a text-box (e.g. input element, not text-area) has 50 characters in it and I want to position ...

I'm working on a BBCode editor and here is the code: var txtarea = document.getElementById("editor_area"); function boldText() { var start = txtarea.selectionStart; var end = ...

I would like to place the cursor in an input field after a specific link is clicked. I'm using this for a small search engine. Imagine an input field: []. Then some links which is adding a string ...

The old version of the question is below, after researching more, I decided to rephrase the question. The problem as before is, I need to focus a contenteditable div without highlighting the text, ...

when you click on 'Ask question' here in Stackoverflow you see a text "What's your programming question? Be descriptive." i want the same thing and all i need for that is to move my cursor to the ...

http://jsfiddle.net/adamadam123/gEEVM/4/ I'm building a chat system that allows users to add emoticons. Just like in the jsfiddler example above I take the current text in the textarea, combine it ...

I have a textarea and when I click in it I want to move the caret to the last character so Something[caret] function moveCaret(){ // Move caret to the last character } <textarea onclick="...

I've found a couple resources for how to place the cursor in a textarea at the end of the text, but I can't sort out a simple way to make it appear at the beginning. I'm prepopulating the textarea ...

Note: Due to a work-related change, I can no longer verify the answers posted here. Most likely, I will never be able to accept an answer down below. The information posted here is useful IMO, so I ...

After a lot of search I found the following threads: define cursor position in form input field jQuery Set Cursor Position in Text Area Unfortunately in none of the posts a complete form embed code ...

I am trying to programmatically fire a key event to go left in a text box, but not having any luck. The input element has focus and the cursor is at the end. I'm trying to get the cursor to move left ...