Thanks for the code. It doesn't work for me--still when I tab into a
textbox in either IE7 or FF3 the content is selected and the cursor
isn't positioned at the end of the text, even when I pull out
everything but this function and two textboxes to test.
I think I may just give up--it was a minor detail and not requested by
the users. Bugs me, though. Seems like it shouldn't be so tricksy...
On Jul 2, 3:12 pm, "Brian J. Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There may be a jQuery way to do this, but I don't know what it is.
>
> However, I do know 2 ways to accomplish this: one DOM way, one IE way.
> Both methods must be employed.
>
> $(function() {
> $('input[type="text"]').bind('focus',function() {
> window.o=this;
> if (o.setSelectionRange) /* DOM */
> setTimeout('o.setSelectionRange(o.value.length,o.value.length)',2);
> else if (o.createTextRange) /* IE */
> {
> var r=o.createTextRange();
> r.moveStart('character',o.value.length);
> r.select();
> }
> });
>
> });
>
> On Jul 2, 2:55 pm, Paul Malan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > By default it seems browsers select all the text in a textbox when it
> > gains focus by way of a tab-press. I would like the cursor to be
> > positioned at the end of any existing text in the input, instead. The
> > examples I'm turning up on Google don't work and seem needlessly
> > complex, and since jQuery simplifies everything else I used to hate
> > about Javascript, I thought I'd see if there's a simple way to
> > position the cursor in a text input box on focus. Is it doable?
>
> > Thanks...
