Textarea It doesnt retrieve the caret position when new line

[edfimasa]

Hi.

I found the following function to retrieve the caret of a textarea:

function doGetCaretPosition (ctrl) {

var CaretPos = 0;
// IE Support
if (document.selection) {

ctrl.focus ();
var Sel = document.selection.createRange ();

Sel.moveStart ('character', -ctrl.value.length);

CaretPos = Sel.text.length;
}
// Firefox support
else if (ctrl.selectionStart || ctrl.selectionStart == '0')
CaretPos = ctrl.selectionStart;

return (CaretPos);

}

It works fine(althow the textarea needs to be the first visible element after the body), but when i try to retrieve the caret (when its in a new blank line), it doesnt give me the position of the new line, but the end of the previews one.

Example.

This is the text in
my text area.

If i press enter (new line) after area. it will give me the position just after area. and not the new line.

Can you help?
Cheers.

 

[1DMF]

It's counting characters by the looks of things and \r or \n are not characters, you need to included these in your calculation.

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