I need to set the cursor at a specific character offset. In the example below, I'd want to, for example, set it between the "a" and the "b".
<ul contenteditable = true >
<li id = "test">abcdef</li>
</ul>
I asked before and got this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/5a9uD/1/
That worked great for the given example and for what I needed it for then. But it does not work with this example: http://jsfiddle.net/mdwWN/ It gets an IndexSizeError at
range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
You just have to pass text container's childNodes[0]
to range.setStart
function.
Check this out.
function setSelectionRange(aNode, childElem, aOffset) {
aNode.focus();
var sel = window.getSelection(),
range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
range.collapse(true);
range.setStart(childElem.childNodes[0], aOffset),
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(range);
}
var container = document.getElementById("test");
var childElement = document.getElementById('item1');
setSelectionRange(container, childElement, 1);
Here is the working fiddle.