With this code I can check the caret position in a textarea in firefox:

document.getElementById("myTextArea").selectionStart

This doesn't work in IE 8. How can I get the caret position in IE 8?

With this code I can check the caret position in a textarea in firefox:

document.getElementById("myTextArea").selectionStart

This doesn't work in IE 8. How can I get the caret position in IE 8?

• javascript
• html
• internet-explorer

• 1 Possible duplicate: stackoverflow./questions/263743/… – Tim Down Commented Apr 13, 2010 at 9:37

1 Answer 1

See the answers here: Caret position in textarea, in characters from the start

Edit

I sorted out the line breaks issue in IE and posted an answer here: Caret position in textarea, in characters from the start