Get Caret Position (FireFox)

[ryanmhuc]

Is there a way to get the caret position of a text input using FireFox.
I am aware of ways to such with IE but have been unable to accomplish
in FireFox and have not found a solution in the groups or web. Anyone?
Thanks

 

[Martin Honnen]

Is there a way to get the caret position of a text input using FireFox.

For textControls in Firefox/Mozilla you can read out
textControl.selectionStart
textControl.selectionEnd
selectionEnd should be the caret position.
To change the selection you can use
textControl.setSelectionRange(newSelectionStart, newSelectionEnd)

Opera 8 also supports those properties/methods on text controls.