Emulating Home Key in Textarea

[Behrooz]

To the experts:
I wonder if it is possible at all.

I have a textarea, and I want to create a "Home key" effect on this textarea , on click of a button.

Like this:
function OnClickofButton1()
{
....
document.form1.textarea1.focus();
document.form1.textarea1.[Jump to Home, as if Home Key is pressed].
}

Is it possible at all? If it is possible, how? I want it in IE only.

Thank you.

 

[link9]

<textarea ACCESSKEY=h>

Will make the cursor jump to the textarea upon the user pressing the &quot;Alt-H&quot; key combination.


Paul Prewett

 

[Behrooz]

Thank you Paul.

However, my problem was vice versa of this solution.

I don't want to jump to textarea, I want to jump to &quot;Home&quot; that is the beginning of the line, when the user is in the textarea. But I don't want to user to press Home Key on the keyboard. The user clicks on the button on the screen, and the cursor inside the textarea wil move to the beginning of the line.

I can put this question this way:

Can we change the position of the cursor inside a textarea programmatically? Can we move the cursor inside the textarea by some javascript commands or functions?

Thank you.