Getting and Setting caret position

Is there a way of getting and/or setting the caret position programatically?
This is the scenario, I have the fckeditor embeded in a web page(frame), everytime I insert data into the editor the caret goes to the begining of the page. It will be nice to tell the editor where to position the cursor.

Regards

Tue, 01/03/2006 - 13:03

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

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RE: Getting and Setting caret position

You can find in the source files that handle the selection that a function to set the cursor position is commented out: FCKSelection.SetCursorPosition

I didn't test it so I don't know why it isn't enabled, but I think that the reason is that it was part of a bunch of changes in order to make <enter> insert <br> in Firefox, and it was disabled as a whole until the problems are fixed.

Tue, 01/03/2006 - 13:45

raulgvalle

Joined: 03/01/2006

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RE: Getting and Setting caret position

Thanks,

Is there a way of getting the cursor position as well?

Tue, 01/03/2006 - 13:54

raulgvalle

Joined: 03/01/2006

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RE: Getting and Setting caret position

Will GetSelectedItem() do the trick?

Tue, 01/03/2006 - 13:54

raulgvalle

Joined: 03/01/2006

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RE: Getting and Setting caret position

sorry I ment GetSelectedElement()

Wed, 01/04/2006 - 07:07

alfonsoml

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RE: Getting and Setting caret position

If you take a look at the comment placed just at the front of that function you can see that it will only return a node if the selection is an object: table, image and the like, nothing when the cursor is selecting or in the middle of some text.

I'm sure that Firefox does have an API to get the current caret position (based on nodes), and I think that IE also has one, but I can't tell exactly how does each one works.