What is the best way (and I presume simplest way) to place the cursor at the end of the text in a input text element via JavaScript - after focus has been set to the element?
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Try this, it has worked for me:
//input is the input element
input.focus(); //sets focus to element
var val = this.input.value; //store the value of the element
this.input.value = ''; //clear the value of the element
this.input.value = val; //set that value back.
For the cursor to be move to the end, the input has to have focus first, then when the value is changed it will goto the end. If you set .value to the same, it won't change in chrome.
I faced this same issue (after setting focus through RJS/prototype) in IE. Firefox was already leaving the cursor at the end when there is already a value for the field. IE was forcing the cursor to the beginning of the text.
The solution I arrived at is as follows:
<input id="search" type="text" value="mycurrtext" size="30"
onfocus="this.value = this.value;" name="search"/>
This works in both IE7 and FF3 but doesn't work in modern browsers (see comments) as it is not specified that UA must overwrite the value in this case (edited in accordance with meta policy).
It's 2019 and none of the methods above worked for me, but this one did, taken from https://css-tricks.com/snippets/javascript/move-cursor-to-end-of-input/
function moveCursorToEnd(id) {
var el = document.getElementById(id)
el.focus()
if (typeof el.selectionStart == "number") {
el.selectionStart = el.selectionEnd = el.value.length;
} else if (typeof el.createTextRange != "undefined") {
var range = el.createTextRange();
range.collapse(false);
range.select();
}
}<input id="myinput" type="text" />
<a href="#" onclick="moveCursorToEnd('myinput')">Move cursor to end</a>el.setSelectionRange(-1, -1);
https://codesandbox.io/s/peaceful-bash-x2mti
This method updates the HTMLInputElement.selectionStart, selectionEnd, and selectionDirection properties in one call.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputElement/setSelectionRange
In other js methods -1 usually means (to the) last character. This is the case for this one too, but I couldn't find explicit mention of this behavior in the docs.
Still the intermediate variable is needed, (see var val=) else the cursor behaves strange, we need it at the end.
<body onload="document.getElementById('userinput').focus();">
<form>
<input id="userinput" onfocus="var val=this.value; this.value=''; this.value= val;"
class=large type="text" size="10" maxlength="50" value="beans" name="myinput">
</form>
</body>
Try this one works with Vanilla JavaScript.
<input type="text" id="yourId" onfocus="let value = this.value; this.value = null; this.value=value" name="nameYouWant" class="yourClass" value="yourValue" placeholder="yourPlaceholder...">
In Js
document.getElementById("yourId").focus()
const end = input.value.length
input.setSelectionRange(end, end)
// scroll to the bottom if a textarea has long text
input.focus()
In jQuery, that's
$(document).ready(function () {
$('input').focus(function () {
$(this).attr('value',$(this).attr('value'));
}
}
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('focus', e => {
const { value } = e.target;
e.target.setSelectionRange(value.length, value.length);
});<input value="my text" />Super easy (you may have to focus on the input element)
inputEl = getElementById('inputId');
var temp = inputEl.value;
inputEl.value = '';
inputEl.value = temp;
I wanted to put cursor at the end of a "div" element where contenteditable = true, and I got a solution with Xeoncross code:
<input type="button" value="Paste HTML" onclick="document.getElementById('test').focus(); pasteHtmlAtCaret('<b>INSERTED</b>'); ">
<div id="test" contenteditable="true">
Here is some nice text
</div>
And this function do magic:
function pasteHtmlAtCaret(html) {
var sel, range;
if (window.getSelection) {
// IE9 and non-IE
sel = window.getSelection();
if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
range.deleteContents();
// Range.createContextualFragment() would be useful here but is
// non-standard and not supported in all browsers (IE9, for one)
var el = document.createElement("div");
el.innerHTML = html;
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(), node, lastNode;
while ( (node = el.firstChild) ) {
lastNode = frag.appendChild(node);
}
range.insertNode(frag);
// Preserve the selection
if (lastNode) {
range = range.cloneRange();
range.setStartAfter(lastNode);
range.collapse(true);
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(range);
}
}
} else if (document.selection && document.selection.type != "Control") {
// IE < 9
document.selection.createRange().pasteHTML(html);
}
}
Works fine for most browsers, please check it, this code puts text and put focus at the end of the text in div element (not input element)
https://jsfiddle.net/Xeoncross/4tUDk/
Thanks, Xeoncross
I also faced same problem. Finally this gonna work for me:
jQuery.fn.putCursorAtEnd = = function() {
return this.each(function() {
// Cache references
var $el = $(this),
el = this;
// Only focus if input isn't already
if (!$el.is(":focus")) {
$el.focus();
}
// If this function exists... (IE 9+)
if (el.setSelectionRange) {
// Double the length because Opera is inconsistent about whether a carriage return is one character or two.
var len = $el.val().length * 2;
// Timeout seems to be required for Blink
setTimeout(function() {
el.setSelectionRange(len, len);
}, 1);
} else {
// As a fallback, replace the contents with itself
// Doesn't work in Chrome, but Chrome supports setSelectionRange
$el.val($el.val());
}
// Scroll to the bottom, in case we're in a tall textarea
// (Necessary for Firefox and Chrome)
this.scrollTop = 999999;
});
};
This is how we can call this:
var searchInput = $("#searchInputOrTextarea");
searchInput
.putCursorAtEnd() // should be chainable
.on("focus", function() { // could be on any event
searchInput.putCursorAtEnd()
});
It's works for me in safari, IE, Chrome, Mozilla. On mobile devices I didn't tried this.
Check this solution!
//fn setCurPosition
$.fn.setCurPosition = function(pos) {
this.focus();
this.each(function(index, elem) {
if (elem.setSelectionRange) {
elem.setSelectionRange(pos, pos);
} else if (elem.createTextRange) {
var range = elem.createTextRange();
range.collapse(true);
range.moveEnd('character', pos);
range.moveStart('character', pos);
range.select();
}
});
return this;
};
// USAGE - Set Cursor ends
$('#str1').setCurPosition($('#str1').val().length);
// USAGE - Set Cursor at 7 position
// $('#str2').setCurPosition(7);<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p>Set cursor at any position</p>
<p><input type="text" id="str1" value="my string here" /></p>
<p><input type="text" id="str2" value="my string here" /></p>Though I'm answering too late, but for future query, it will be helpful. And it also work in contenteditable div.
From where you need to set focus at end; write this code-
var el = document.getElementById("your_element_id");
placeCaretAtEnd(el);
And the function is -
function placeCaretAtEnd(el) {
el.focus();
if (typeof window.getSelection != "undefined"
&& typeof document.createRange != "undefined") {
var range = document.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(el);
range.collapse(false);
var sel = window.getSelection();
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(range);
} else if (typeof document.body.createTextRange != "undefined") {
var textRange = document.body.createTextRange();
textRange.moveToElementText(el);
textRange.collapse(false);
textRange.select();
}
}
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