Getting the current position of a cursor in a text box

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Say a user has their cursor in a text box and they click a button and want to add some information in, how would I get the current position of the cursor in the textbox to add that information in to that specific place?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[SammyGunnz]

Think Javascript.

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Sir, I like the way you think, we should collaborate some time. =P

[Fadion]

I did not write this javascript function by myself so i take no responsability . Hope it works anyway.

 

With 'el' being your form control, try using:

function getCaretPos(el) {
var rng, ii=-1;
if(typeof el.selectionStart=="number") {
ii=el.selectionStart;
} else if (document.selection && el.createTextRange){
rng=document.selection.createRange();
rng.collapse(true);
rng.moveStart("character", -el.value.length);
ii=rng.text.length;
}
return ii;
}