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Setting Caret on contenteditable div and input box - pure javascript for crossbrowser
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setSelectionRangeOnInput(el, caretPos) { | |
if (el.createTextRange) { | |
const range = el.createTextRange(); | |
range.move('character', caretPos); | |
range.select(); | |
} else { | |
el.focus(); | |
if (el.selectionStart) { | |
el.setSelectionRange(caretPos, caretPos); | |
} | |
} | |
}, | |
setSelectionRangeOnContenteditableDiv(el, start, end) { | |
if (document.createRange && window.getSelection) { | |
const range = document.createRange(); | |
range.selectNodeContents(el); | |
const textNodes = this.getTextNodesIn(el); | |
let foundStart = false; | |
let charCount = 0; | |
let endCharCount; | |
for (let i = 0; i < textNodes.length; i++) { | |
const textNode = textNodes[i]; | |
endCharCount = charCount + textNode.length; | |
if (!foundStart && start >= charCount && (start < endCharCount || (start === endCharCount && i <= textNodes.length))) { | |
range.setStart(textNode, start - charCount); | |
foundStart = true; | |
} | |
if (foundStart && end <= endCharCount) { | |
range.setEnd(textNode, end - charCount); | |
break; | |
} | |
charCount = endCharCount; | |
i++; | |
} | |
const sel = window.getSelection(); | |
sel.removeAllRanges(); | |
sel.addRange(range); | |
} else if (document.selection && document.body.createTextRange) { | |
const textRange = document.body.createTextRange(); | |
textRange.moveToElementText(el); | |
textRange.collapse(true); | |
textRange.moveEnd('character', end); | |
textRange.moveStart('character', start); | |
textRange.select(); | |
} | |
}, | |
getTextNodesIn(node) { | |
const textNodes = []; | |
if (node.nodeType === 3) { | |
textNodes.push(node); | |
} else { | |
const children = node.childNodes; | |
for (let i = 0, len = children.length; i < len; ++i) { | |
textNodes.push.apply(textNodes, this.getTextNodesIn(children[i])); | |
} | |
} | |
return textNodes; | |
}, |
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