What's the best way to set cursor/caret position?
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If I'm inserting content into a textarea that TinyMCE has co-opted, what's the best way to set the position of the cursor/caret?
I'm using tinyMCE.execCommand("mceInsertRawHTML", false, content);
to insert the content, and I'd like set the cursor position to the end of the content.
Both document.selection
and myField.selectionStart
won't work for this, and I feel as though this is going to be supported by TinyMCE (through something I can't find on their forum) or it's going to be a really ugly hack.
Later: It gets better; I just figured out that, when you load TinyMCE in WordPress, it loads the entire editor in an embedded iframe.
Later (2): I can use document.getElementById('content_ifr').contentDocument.getSelection();
to get the selection as a string, but not a Selection Object that I can use getRangeAt(0)
on. Making progress little by little.
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