I've been able to find for an editable HTML textarea for a WYSIWYG editor. It can save and restore the caret position. It works on FF3.5+, IE8, but does not work on Opera 11, Safari 5, or Chrome 10. Any ideas why? I'm just trying to find some code that works on FF3+, opera 10+, safari 5, chrome 8+, and IE7+.
View 2 RepliesDoes jQuery provide an abstraction for getting and setting the cursor for editable content div's? And if not, any assistance on how to do this? I really just want to pass the "id" and a cursor value to set it... or just the id to get the cursor value. Basically, I'd really like a high-level interface because trying to get it to work on Firefox alone is a massive pain :(
The fundamental problem is this:
If you have a div that contains text and other html elements, if the user's selection encompasses text and html, it won't do anything. I don't even think it registers.
Even when you do get a selection though, we can only find the cursor value within that range. So if there's html elements that are siblings to the left of it, the number of positions isn't accounted for.
I was I could just "get the selection information" and "store the selection information". When I try that, it still doesn't work :/
I have a contenteditable div, it has some paragraphs in it.Assuming a situation, when I click the button "set caret position", the main div will focus, the caret will start at position number 8 of second paragraph, which means the caret will appear after the word "draw".How would you do it?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI wonder how to get/set the caret position of a textfield. I dont wanna paste something, but only set the caret position. With firefox I can do this stuff: textfield.startSelection = pos;With IE I dont have a plan how to solve.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI would like to determine where the current insertion point is in a text field.
Say I had a text field that held 80 characters. I would like to display to the
user the current position of the insertion point at any point in the field.
I have found the TextRange object and have found examples of how to insert text
at a particular location. I have not been able to find a way to return a
number depicting the current location of the cursor.
I'm using a div with contenteditable=true, and I need to know where the caret is for operations like splitting the html contents of that div where the caret is. Ultimately, if a piece of text is selected, I'll want to split that html content on the selection start / end.jCaret only seems to work for textareas.Is this possible in a div?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a contentEditable element, and am using setTimeout() to call a function which changes the innerHTML of the div. Problem is that changing innerHTML moves the caret to the end of the text.
I need to keep the caret pos so the user can keep typing. I tried storing the caret pos with
cursorPos=document.selection.createRange().duplicate();
And then later restoring it with cursorPos.select() - which is IE only, but it doesn't work because the content of the div gets changed between calls, and the behavior is undefined (it basically selects everything) ...
I am developing a page that works like a text editor.In that page, I am trying to show the user on which row and column he is in.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm creating a custom text box.that's an easy thing to do for me but I encounter some problems on the javascript part.in the onfocus event of the textbox I try to get the caret position on the start.it works perfect on FF, IE and opera but I just can't get it to work in safari and google chrome. I found out both browsers use webkit but have no idea how you do it for the 2 browsers.I'm using asp.net ajax components for javascript and this works for the 3 browsers get_inputElement() = my textbox
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to implement is a table with editable rows and columns that will feed back into a database. If I could do it with AJAX that would be great too, but I'm not too familiar with javascript. I don't need the code, I need more of an idea. The HTML Table is currently a recreation of the MySQL table minus a few columns. Its all in text, but if I could make the text editable, or better yet, make the text turn into input boxes it would be really cool. I'm not really sure what kind of methods and properties I would need, or quite how to put it all together. What do you think is the best way to go about the entire project?
View 8 Replies View RelatedHow do I set the cursor position in a TEXTAREA? I need a function that is supported by most browsers (like IE, Firefox, and Safari).
View 6 Replies View RelatedHere's my problem: I need to present text in a scrolling textarea such
that a checkbox is not enabled until the user has scrolled to the very
last line of the text using the vertical scrollbar.
Been searching for some functions to get scrollbar position for a
textarea object but coming up empty.
Sup yo, I need to add text in a <textarea>, but i can only append text at the end.
Is there any way to add text to where the cursor is currently at?[code]...
And below i has sum buttonz that uses that function.
So, again, how can I add text to where the I-beam is currently, instead of at the end?
I am currently working on a small script that allows people to insert BB-codes to edit their text. They are able to click a button (for example underline) and then the bb-code will appear at the end of the textfield-value.How can i retrieve the current position of the cursor within the textarea and then parse the bb-code within?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm really struggling to find any sample code for getting the start and end position of a text area selection (i.e. a textarea contains the phrase "Why isn't there a standard, well-known function that does this?" and somebody selects the word "there" -- using a function, I'd like to be able to grab the start position and end position of the word "there").
Can anybody help me with this, or am I going to have to hack together some long-winded function to do this seemingly simple task?
Does anyone know how to change the position of the caret (cursor) in a Textarea, using Javascript?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to write a function that will let me position my cursor in a textarea on a line number. I would need to use on a textarea component to do this.
I'd like to popup a dialog in JS so I can ask the user what line number and then have the cursor go to that line - is this even possible?
I'm really not sure how to go about doing this, so any and all pointers are welcome. What I'd like to do is be able to find the position and width of a word that has been typed inside of a <textarea>, so that I might overlay some absolutely-positioned elements on top, and size them properly. I would really like to be able to do this in the most general case as possible (independent of fonts, font size, size of the textarea, etc.), but as stated any help is welcome.
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I am writing an advanced BBCode system for my forums and I would like
to be able to find where the cursor was positioned last in the text so
I could insert the BBCode there.
Question 2
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Again I am writing an advanced BBCode system for my forums and I would
like to make is so that when someone puts in a [b] tag it goes bold, so
kind of a WYSIWYG editor and also for other things like [img] tags and
[url] tags. So could someone tell me how to do that. I would preferably
like it to still use the textarea tag, or at least a form component so
my existing code works.
I've got this javascript routine (i found on google) in an
asp.net page that on page reload sets the cursor of a textbox to the
last line. It works great!
Using a similar concept, I have another application that uses a
textbox like an editor window and has a save and other buttons.
Problem is - when I save/post/reload, the textbox returns to cursor
the top again.
How can I preserve / save the exact cursor spot and return to the
exact same spot I was in before I saved. Code:
have facing a problem with .toggle()i have a requirement that when i click a button a row will be editable when i click it again the row will not be editable.when i use .toggle with alert, the first time it shows the first alert. when i click it a second time it shows alert 2. when i press ok on alert 2, alert 1 fires. how do i stop this?
View 3 Replies View Relatedi,m trying to make a map who show me as position A and a target adress as point B.I have made it so i can choose adress a and adress b from a dropdown but i want to automaticly load my position as possition A then choose position B from a dropdownlist. How can i do this ?
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in a DHTML Editing control (MSIE), I need to "extend" the caret to the
nearest text character in order to obtain a text selection (and than a
textRange object with the createRange method).
This is needed because I have a set of functions doing operations
within the edit control's rich text. But all the functions need to
start from a selected text (for example, adding a table row). My aim is
to get the things work also if no text is selected from the user. But I
could not find a way to have a selected text starting from the simple
cursor position.
Is there a way to disable Caret Browsing in FF using Javascript?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm new to javascript and am not sure why this works in firefox and not chrome. I am trying to create a script that keeps an object fixed horizontally while bing positioned absolute vertically. if I replace the toPP variable in document.getElementById('fire').style.top = toPP; with say '50px' it will move the element down 50 pxs, but how I have it currently it doesn't do anything in chrome
<script type="text/javascript" >
window.onscroll = function()
{
if( window.XMLHttpRequest ) {
var x = 0 -document.documentElement.scrollTop;
var toP = String(x);
var toPP = toP + "px";
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The code below calculates Total = (Quantity_01)*10.00 + (Quantity_02)*5.00, and displays the Total in a TextBox called "result": document.myForm.result.value = Total.toFixed(2);
I don't want and don't need "result" (Total) to be an editable input TextBox, like it is now. I would like it to be something like a label, non-editable. I played around with "writeln" and <LABEL> but actually I don't know how to combine them with document.myForm.result.value = Total.toFixed(2);.
I just want the Total not to be editable. Code: