jquery Setting cursor position in contenteditable div
caret, contenteditable, cursor-position, focus, jquery
Solution
demo: http://so.lucafilosofi.com/jquery-setting-cursor-position-in-contenteditable-div/
<div id="editable" contentEditable="true">
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</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$('[contentEditable="true"]').on('click', function (e) {
if (!$(this).hasClass('editing')) {
var html = $(this).html();
if (html.length) {
var range = rangy.createRange();
$(this).toggleClass('editing').html('<span class="content-editable-wrapper">' + html + '</span>');
var $last = $(this).find('.content-editable-wrapper');
range.setStartAfter($last[0]);
range.collapse(false);
rangy.getSelection().setSingleRange(range);
}
}
}).on('blur', function () {
$(this).toggleClass('editing').find('.content-editable-wrapper').children().last().unwrap();
});
});
</script>
- NOTE: make use of rangy.js https://code.google.com/p/rangy/
Problem
The old version of the question is below, after researching more, I decided to rephrase the question. The problem as before is, I need to focus a contenteditable div without highlighting the text, doing straight up focus highlights the text in Chrome. I realize that people solved this problems in textareas by resetting the caret position in the textarea. How can I do that with a contenteditable element? All the plugins I've tried only works with textareas. Thanks. Old Phrasing of the question: I have a contenteditable element that I want to focus, but only insofar as to place the cursor at the front of the element, rather selecting everything. `elem.trigger('focus');` with jquery selects all the text in the entire element in chrome. Firefox behaves correctly, setting the caret at the front of the text. How can I get Chrome to behave the way I want, or is focus perhaps not what I'm looking for. Thanks all.