RE: Help please ... Set caret position onmouseup

I don't think that there is a solution for this that's cross-browser
compatible.

 

It works best in IE, where you can use the TextRange.moveToPoint() method to
set the selection's TextRange to the x/y coordinates of the mouseup event.

 

In Gecko browsers, there's no means to set the Range based on coordinates.
You can get "close" by setting the style of the text field to a monospace
font with a fixed character width, then setting the Range's startOffset to a
character count based on pixel math from the x coordinate of the mouseup
event.

 

Sadly, however, there are no means to set the selection position in Safari.

 

-ryan

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Brendan Gogarty
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [wdf-dom] Help please ... Set caret position onmouseup

 

Hi,
- I need to drag an element over an <input type='text' field
- When/if the mouse is released set the caret position in that
field to 
the cursor position over it
- Then paste text in that position

input.selectionStart works in an onclick capacity but not in an
onmouseup 
capacity. Tried using the a.click() function but that just emulates a
click 
at the end of the text-range ...

No luck from the WC3 DOM specs, so I thought I'd try here. Any ideas?
regards
brendan

 



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