caret-xy

Viewport-based (fixed) caret position for HTML input and textarea elements. This project is based on textarea-caret-position.

npm i caret-xy

or

yarn add caret-xy

API

caretXY(element, position)

• element input or textarea DOM element.
• position is an integer indicating the location of the caret (defaults to element.selectionEnd).

Sample

import caretXY from 'caret-xy'

const input = document.querySelector('input')
caretXY(input)

Known Issue

• Does not work properly for <input type="email"/>, <input type="password"/> (element.selectionEnd always returns null).