i have a textarea and I want to check if the cursor is at the start or at the end (I dont need the current position).
Did anybody know a simple jQuery solution?
Thanks in advance!
Peter
Assuming you mean a <input type="text">
rather than a textarea, here's a non-jQuery solution (that you can still use with your jQuery code). It will almost certainly be less code than a jQuery plug-in.
UPDATE 12 November 2011
Having said that, I have developed a jQuery plug-in for just his kind of task, and it is indeed bigger than the code below.
var textInput = document.getElementById("your_id"), val = textInput.value;
var isAtStart = false, isAtEnd = false;
if (typeof textInput.selectionStart == "number") {
// Non-IE browsers
isAtStart = (textInput.selectionStart == 0);
isAtEnd = (textInput.selectionEnd == val.length);
} else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) {
// IE <= 8 branch
textInput.focus();
var selRange = document.selection.createRange();
var inputRange = textInput.createTextRange();
var inputSelRange = inputRange.duplicate();
inputSelRange.moveToBookmark(selRange.getBookmark());
isAtStart = inputSelRange.compareEndPoints("StartToStart", inputRange) == 0;
isAtEnd = inputSelRange.compareEndPoints("EndToEnd", inputRange) == 0;
}
alert("At start: " + isAtStart + ", at end: " + isAtEnd);