How can I get the location of keypress

[inbaron]

I am trying to create a tooltip that shows the number of characters already typed as I progressively type text in a textarea. I want the tooltip (a div eleemnt) to follow the place where I type the character. I trap the onkeypress event and try to get its location to place the div element there. However, when I event.clientX and event.clientY give the location of the mouse cursor and not where I type. I know I trap get correct event because the event.keyCode always gives me the code of the character I just typed.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Shai Inbar

 

[stormbind]

Maybe you can use the claret position + (fixed width) font size + element positioning to get coordinates?

MSIE might be able to select characters, create a textrange and return the position of the text node but that's a long shot

I have definately never tried anything like this before.

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[inbaron]

Thanks

Unfortunately I do not have this flexibility. It has to be both IE and NS compatible and use any font.