A jQuery plugin to get'n'set the caret/selection.
Retrieve the caret (text cursor) position from textareas and input fields as well as the actual selection and its index boundaries. Replacing the selection string is also supported. Unfortunately special treatment for such a simple thing is needed, because MSIE doesn't support the easy DOM 3.0 methods.
First public release: getSelection and replaceSelection basically works.
jQuery (tested with version 1.0.2+)
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-fieldselection.js"></script>//Get Selected text
var selectedText = $('#id_textarea').getSelection();
//Replacing selection
$('#id_textarea').replaceSelection('new text here');getSelection return sample:
{start: 162, end: 171, length: 9, text: "Selected text here"}Thankyou to localhost a person who started this plugin.
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Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2017 Nikolas Leite
2006 Alex Brem
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