How do I get the caret position in a textarea?

[torch]

I have trawled the internet for a solution to this one . All I need is the
caret position as a number. I have seen quite a few text insertion functions
that do something like this :

textarea.caretPos = document.selection.createRange().duplicate()

and then operate on the caretPos object - but all these solutions seem to
work by creating a selected area in the text and then replacing it - I just
want the caret position as a number.

Anyone got any clues?

Thanks

 

[Ivo]

I have trawled the internet for a solution to this one . All I need is the
caret position as a number.

See this thread (url may wrap):
<URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=407716b1$0$64635$4a441750@ne
ws.wanadoo.nl >

HTH
Ivo

 

[Ivo]

Also, try this alternate..
<http://groups.google.com/groups?th=296d438401e265d5>

(shrugs) I have been practising the 'black art'
of shortening Google Usenet URL's recently and
have become quite good at it. ..Maybe I should
write a page on it.

Yes, please do. This is impressive.
Ivo

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

I have trawled the internet for a solution to this one . All I need is the
caret position as a number. I have seen quite a few text insertion functions
that do something like this :

textarea.caretPos = document.selection.createRange().duplicate()

and then operate on the caretPos object - but all these solutions seem to
work by creating a selected area in the text and then replacing it - I just
want the caret position as a number.

Anyone got any clues?

In the IE DOM, TextRange objects have a boundingLeft property.
Reads to me as it was what you are looking for:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/duplicate.asp>

In the Gecko DOM, HTMLTextAreaElement objects have a selectionStart
property:
<http://www.xulplanet.com/references/objref/HTMLTextAreaElement.html>


HTH

PointedEars