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Get Caret Position (FireFox)

Is there a way to get the caret position of a text input using FireFox.
I am aware of ways to such with IE but have been unable to accomplish
in FireFox and have not found a solution in the groups or web. Anyone?
Thanks

Nov 3 '05 #1
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ry******@yahoo.com wrote:
Is there a way to get the caret position of a text input using FireFox.


For textControls in Firefox/Mozilla you can read out
textControl.selectionStart
textControl.selectionEnd
selectionEnd should be the caret position.
To change the selection you can use
textControl.setSelectionRange(newSelectionStart, newSelectionEnd)

Opera 8 also supports those properties/methods on text controls.
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
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