I have a textarea...
<textarea>
Some writing here
*
Then some more on another line
</textarea>
What I want to do is focus the user where the * is. Is this possible?
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<textarea>
Some writing here
*
Then some more on another line
</textarea>
What I want to do is focus the user where the * is. Is this possible?
See Question&Answers more detail:osUse the following function to set a selection within a textarea.
function setSelRange(inputEl, selStart, selEnd) {
if (inputEl.setSelectionRange) {
inputEl.focus();
inputEl.setSelectionRange(selStart, selEnd);
} else if (inputEl.createTextRange) {
var range = inputEl.createTextRange();
range.collapse(true);
range.moveEnd('character', selEnd);
range.moveStart('character', selStart);
range.select();
}
}
// From http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/4527.htm
So, in your case, you can search for the position of the *
character and use that value in a call like this:
var pos = 17; // Set this to the position of the * character.
setSelRange(document.getElementById('textareaId'), pos, pos);