Tag-like autocompletion and caret/cursor movement in contenteditable elements.

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I'm working on a jQuery plugin that will allow you to do @username style tags, like Facebook does in their status update input box.
My problem is, that even after hours of researching and experimenting, it seems REALLY hard to simply move the caret.

I've managed to inject the @tag with someone's name, but placing the caret after it seems like rocket science, specially if it's supposed work in all browsers.
And I haven't even looked into replacing the typed @username text with the tag yet, rather than just injecting it as I'm doing right now.

There's a ton of questions about working with contenteditable on Stack Overflow & google so much contents, and I think I've read all of them, but they don't really cover properly what I need. So any more information anyone can provide would be great :)

Posted 30-Jul-10 0:27am

Shilpi@Live

Updated 30-Jul-10 1:21am

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TheyCallMeMrJames · Answer 1 · 2010-07-30T03:24:00

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Don't hem yourself in with jQuery, straight-up JavaScript will work fine.

Here's a snippet on setting the cursor position:
Get/Set Cursor position in textbox by Javascript

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

btw: for removing the @username, just do a string replace prior to figuring out where you're setting the cursor location.

Posted 30-Jul-10 3:24am

TheyCallMeMrJames

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Shilpi@Live 2-Aug-10 2:35am

Thanks for the answer.

what is caretpos in the function setCaretPosition(elemId, caretPos)pls reply soon.

Shilpi