I was wondering if it is possible to find the exact location of the caret inside a textarea in pixels in relation to the entire page. For instance, if I have typed This is text into my text box, I would like to know the pixels from the top left of the screen to the caret.
It would be in the form X: 200 Y: 100. This is so I can position a floating div. This needs to be done dynamically in javascript.
Thanks guys
This "raw code" works at least in IE.
Using the code you can put your <TEXTAREA> where ever you want in page, and the <DIV id="db"> will follow it. Even despite of the scrolling position of the page. You can fix the position of <DIV> by changing the literal numbers at d.style...6-statements.
<body>
<div id="db" style="position:absolute;left:-20px;top:-20px;border:1px solid red;">V</div>
<br><br><br>
<form id="props">
<textarea id="ta" style="width:200px;height:100px;" onkeyup="moveDiv();"></textarea>
</form>
<script>
<!--
var b=document.body;
var d=document.getElementById('db');
var a=document.getElementById('ta');
function moveDiv(){
var sel=document.selection;
var targ=sel.createRange();
d.style.top=a.offsetTop+a.clientTop-d.clientHeight-6;
d.style.left=targ.offsetLeft+b.scrollLeft-6;
return;
}
// -->
</script>
</body>
Positioning of the <DIV> is not quite exact, but gets better when using fixed-width font in <TEXTAREA>.
Here is a simple mix of ideas from Caret position in pixels in an input type text (not a textarea) , Caret position in textarea, in characters from the start and document.getElementById vs jQuery $() to get the caret position in jQuery for an <input> element. It works when clicking inside it, but not when moving the caret using the arrows or typing.
<input id="someid">
<span id="faux" style="display:none"></span><br/>
<script>
var inputter = $('#someid')[0];
var faux = $('#faux');
function getCaret(el) {
if (el.selectionStart) {
return el.selectionStart;
} else if (document.selection) {
el.focus();
var r = document.selection.createRange();
if (r == null) {
return 0;
}
var re = el.createTextRange(),
rc = re.duplicate();
re.moveToBookmark(r.getBookmark());
rc.setEndPoint('EndToStart', re);
return rc.text.length;
}
return 0;
}
$("#someid").click( function( event ) {
caretpos = getCaret(inputter);
calcfaux = faux.text($(this).val().substring(0, caretpos));
fauxpos = calcfaux.outerWidth();
$("#getpx").text(fauxpos + " px");
});
</script>
Instead of var inputter = document.getElementById('someid') we use var inputter = $('#someid')[0];
Here is a FIDDLE.
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