Comments on: Inserting at the cursor using JavaScript

By: Viorel

Viorel — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:07:45 +0000

Thanks man! A thousand times thanks! Simple and efficient.

By: parviz

parviz — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:31:14 +0000

thanks man.

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fresh//comments | //beconfused — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:15:26 +0000

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By: Mohan Seripalli

Mohan Seripalli — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:37:45 +0000

Thank you very much for this code. It works great.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:09:05 +0000

Great snippet !
It works beautifully !
Thank you very much for sharing this here.

Another handy method for Mozilla/Netscape browsers is element.setSelectionRange(pos, pos) , which sets the position of the cursor !

By: tdawg

tdawg — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:43:38 +0000

It works great in safari, firefox, and chrome!!
Thanks I looked forever for this code… so many versions out there that are so complicated… good job on simplicity!

By: Dermot

Dermot — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:57:05 +0000

Thank you – am using this code snippet

By: user

user — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:26:52 +0000

thank you guys all participated in the discussion

By: chako

chako — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:41:51 +0000

Works like a charm, I was looking for a small text editor, with your code I am writing my own … thanks alot

By: saÄŸlÄ±k

saÄŸlÄ±k — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:22:03 +0000

thanks.Ä± use this function.

By: dilip

dilip — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:39:57 +0000

thanks a lot for that. its working fine.

it worked for me with a little changes:

function doPaste(myField)
{

if (document.selection)
{
myField.focus();
sel = document.selection.createRange();
sel.execCommand(“Paste”);
}
}

Html link: doPaste(document.b3.txt1);

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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:22:04 +0000

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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:25:01 +0000

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By: proee

proee — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:21:58 +0000

Alex,

Iâ€™ve only been able to get this script to work if the function is called from an â€œinputâ€ style button element. If itâ€™s called from say a “div” or “ul” element it does not work in IE. The cursor returns to the front of the input. I’ve tried changing every event handler sequence I can drum up but it still does not hold the cursor position. Any thoughts on why?

By: nagendran

nagendran — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:26:59 +0000

your is very useful form me, can u help me how to inerst content in div element texts instead of textarea