Textarea focus IE

Question

I have a problem with a textarea and the focus in IE. I have a click handler on the textarea to add a'n value. This works perfect in Firefox and Chrome, but in IE it seems to work, but then the focus goes to the left top. How can i fix this.

This is my code to edit the textarea:

$(".js-feedback").click(function(){
    var v = $(this).val();
    $(this).val(v + ((v == '') ? '' : "\n\n") + "Periode 1: ");

    return false;
});

Regards, Michel

[Take a look at this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1552567/specifying-where-to-focus-within-textarea?rq=1) to set your focus at a certain position in a text area. — Cerbrus, Nov 26 '12 at 08:53

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '12 at 09:20

Found a way.

    <textarea id="myTextarea" style="width: 98%; margin: 0px; height: 53px;" name="data[feedback][1]" class="js-feedback" placeholder="Hier uw opmerkingen..." autocomplete="off">Periode 0: Hier uw tekst
    </textarea>

    <script type="text/javascript">

        $(".js-feedback").click(function(){
            var v = $(this).val();
            if($.browser.msie){
                var htmElement = document.getElementById('myTextarea');
                htmElement.setSelectionRange( v.length, v.length );
            }
            else{
                $(this).val(v + ((v == '') ? '' : "\n\n") + "Periode 1: ");
            }
            return false;
        });
    </script>

Make sure you declared

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

also

Thanks, I ended up with using this code for the selection: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499126/jquery-set-cursor-position-in-text-area (the code of Mark). — Michel Bardelmeijer, Nov 26 '12 at 10:50

Textarea focus IE

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