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text-cusor-helper

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DeprecatedThis package is deprecated

Text Cursor Helper

This library provides fast ways to deal with the text cursor when editing in input, textarea, and div (contenteditable = true) elements:

  • Get position of the text cursor on the Oxy coordinate axis
  • Move the text cursor to the end of input fields

Installing

Using npm

  npm i text-cusor-helper

Using yarn

  yarn add text-cusor-helper

Once the package is installed, you can import using ES Modules:

import textCursorHelper from 'text-cusor-helper';

Quick Start

Get position of the text cursor

Returns X, Y coordinates for positioning of a text cursor within a given text input at a given selection point

Parameters:
Order Name Description Type
1 input The text input that need deal with text cursor inside it Element
2 anchor The element serves as a reference for coordinates calculation (The origin of Oxy coordinates) textCursorHelper.ANCHOR:
  • ROOT [Default]
  • POSITIONED_PARENT: the nearest parent element having the position attribute is relative or absolute
Example:

const inputElement = document.querySelector(".comment-input")
const position = textCursorHelper.getCursorXY(
  inputElement,
  textCursorHelper.ANCHOR.POSITIONED_PARENT
);

console.log(position)
// { x: 50: y : 50 }