Get current cursor position from multiline textbox without selection of any data

Question

How to get current cursor position from multi-line textbox without selection of any data from the textbox?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/263743/how-to-get-caret-position-in-textarea Is this what you want? — luiges90, Jan 07 '13 at 13:17
Please check this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/263743/how-to-get-caret-position-in-textarea — Hui Zheng, Jan 07 '13 at 13:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 07 '13 at 13:18

This vanilla JS DEMO should get you started.

var textArea = document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];

function mouseMove(e) {
  var x = e.pageX - textArea.offsetLeft,
      y = e.pageY - textArea.offsetTop;

  textArea.value = x + ", " + y;
}

textArea.addEventListener('mousemove', mouseMove, false);

Get current cursor position from multiline textbox without selection of any data

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