jquery Setting cursor position in contenteditable div

Maybe I’m misreading the question, but wouldn’t the following do (assuming an editable <div> with id “editable”)? The timer is there because in Chrome, the native browser behaviour that selects the whole element seems to trigger after the focus event, thereby overriding the effect of the selection code unless postponed until after the focus event:

var div = document.getElementById("editable");

div.onfocus = function() {
    window.setTimeout(function() {
        var sel, range;
        if (window.getSelection && document.createRange) {
            range = document.createRange();
            range.selectNodeContents(div);
            range.collapse(true);
            sel = window.getSelection();
            sel.removeAllRanges();
            sel.addRange(range);
        } else if (document.body.createTextRange) {
            range = document.body.createTextRange();
            range.moveToElementText(div);
            range.collapse(true);
            range.select();
        }
    }, 1);
};

div.focus();

Leave a Comment

tech