How to move cursor to end of contenteditable entity

If you don't care about older browsers, this one did the trick for me.

// [optional] make sure focus is on the element
yourContentEditableElement.focus();
// select all the content in the element
document.execCommand('selectAll', false, null);
// collapse selection to the end
document.getSelection().collapseToEnd();

It's possible to do set cursor to the end through the range:

setCaretToEnd(target/*: HTMLDivElement*/) {
  const range = document.createRange();
  const sel = window.getSelection();
  range.selectNodeContents(target);
  range.collapse(false);
  sel.removeAllRanges();
  sel.addRange(range);
  target.focus();
  range.detach(); // optimization

  // set scroll to the end if multiline
  target.scrollTop = target.scrollHeight; 
}

Moving cursor to the end of editable span in response to focus event:

  moveCursorToEnd(el){
    if(el.innerText && document.createRange)
    {
      window.setTimeout(() =>
        {
          let selection = document.getSelection();
          let range = document.createRange();

          range.setStart(el.childNodes[0],el.innerText.length);
          range.collapse(true);
          selection.removeAllRanges();
          selection.addRange(range);
        }
      ,1);
    }
  }

And calling it in event handler (React here):

onFocus={(e) => this.moveCursorToEnd(e.target)}} 

A shorter and readable version using only selection (without range):

function setEndOfContenteditable(elem) {
    let sel = window.getSelection()
    sel.selectAllChildren(elem)
    sel.collapseToEnd()
}

<p id="pdemo" contenteditable>
A paragraph <span id="txt1" style="background-color: #0903">span text node <i>span italic</i></span> a paragraph.
<p>

<button onclick="pdemo.focus(); setEndOfContenteditable(txt1)">set caret</button>

Quite useful: https://javascript.info/selection-range

I had a similar problem trying to make a element editable. It was possible in Chrome and FireFox but in FireFox the caret either went to the beginning of the input or it went one space after the end of the input. Very confusing to the end-user I think, trying to edit the content.

I found no solution trying several things. Only thing that worked for me was to "go around the problem" by putting a plain old text-input INSIDE my . Now it works. Seems like "content-editable" is still bleeding edge tech, which may or may not work as you would like it to work, depending on the context.

The problem with contenteditable <div> and <span> is resolved when you start typing in it initially. One workaround for this could be triggering a focus event on your div element and on that function, clear, and refill what was already in the div element. This way the problem is resolved and finally you can place the cursor at the end using range and selection. Worked for me.

  moveCursorToEnd(e : any) {
    let placeholderText = e.target.innerText;
    e.target.innerText = '';
    e.target.innerText = placeholderText;

    if(e.target.innerText && document.createRange)
    {
      let range = document.createRange();
      let selection = window.getSelection();
      range.selectNodeContents(e.target);
      range.setStart(e.target.firstChild,e.target.innerText.length);
      range.setEnd(e.target.firstChild,e.target.innerText.length);
      selection.removeAllRanges();
      selection.addRange(range);
    }
  }

In HTML code:

<div contentEditable="true" (focus)="moveCursorToEnd($event)"></div>