Cursor position in an edit

How would I get and set the position of a cursor in a text edit field?

<script language='javascript'>
function csrPos(editName){
var cp=document.getElementById(editName).??? <--- what goes here?
alert(cp);
}
</script>

<edit onkeyup="csrPos('txtIn');" id=txtIn type=text size=50>

TIA

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How would I get and set the position of a cursor in a text edit field?

script language='javascript'
function csrPos(editName){
var cp=document.getElementById(editName).??? <--- what goes here?
alert(cp);
}
/script

edit onkeyup="csrPos('txtIn');" id=txtIn type=text size=50

TIA

I Think you ment to give focus on the element type so it can be selected on

top of others , so if the browser supports it it stays like:
document.getElementById('editname').focus();

Hope it helps........

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How would I get and set the position of a cursor in a text edit field?

script language='javascript'
function csrPos(editName){
var cp=document.getElementById(editName).??? <--- what goes here?
alert(cp);
}
/script

edit onkeyup="csrPos('txtIn');" id=txtIn type=text size=50

TIA

I Think you ment to give focus on the element type so it can be selected on

top of others , so if the browser supports it it stays like:
document.getElementById('editname').focus();

Hope it helps........

That helps, I forgot about setting the focus. The edit in question will
already have text in it and I want to be able to move the cursor to a
specific position in that text and also be able to tell what character in
the text the cursor is at.


"Oscar Monteiro" <offm (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

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How would I get and set the position of a cursor in a text edit field?

script language='javascript'
function csrPos(editName){
var cp=document.getElementById(editName).??? <--- what goes here?
alert(cp);
}
/script

edit onkeyup="csrPos('txtIn');" id=txtIn type=text size=50

TIA

I Think you ment to give focus on the element type so it can be selected
on top of others , so if the browser supports it it stays like:
document.getElementById('editname').focus();

Hope it helps........

How would I get and set the position of a cursor in a text edit field?

you have to write your own onclick and onkepress handlers to handle the
editing (not a small task). unless you only want it to work in IE.


Bye.
Jasen