// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/263743/how-to-get-caret-position-in-textarea
var clone, getCaret;
getCaret = function(el) {
var r, rc, re;
if (el.selectionStart) {
return el.selectionStart;
} else if (document.selection) {
el.focus();
r = document.selection.createRange();
if (!r) return 0;
re = el.createTextRange();
rc = re.duplicate();
re.moveToBookmark(r.getBookmark());
rc.setEndPoint("EndToStart", re);
return rc.text.length;
}
return 0;
};
clone = null;
$.fn.caret = function(){
return getCaret(this[0]);
};
/**
This is a jQuery plugin to retrieve the caret position in a textarea
@module $.fn.caretPosition
**/
$.fn.caretPosition = function(options) {
var after, before, getStyles, guard, html, important, insertSpaceAfterBefore, letter, makeCursor, p, pPos, pos, span, styles, textarea, val;
if (clone) {
clone.remove();
}
span = $("#pos span");
textarea = $(this);
getStyles = function(el) {
if (el.currentStyle) {
return el.currentStyle;
} else {
return document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, "");
}
};
styles = getStyles(textarea[0]);
clone = $("
").appendTo("body");
p = clone.find("p");
clone.width(textarea.width());
clone.height(textarea.height());
important = function(prop) {
return styles.getPropertyValue(prop);
};
clone.css({
border: "1px solid black",
padding: important("padding"),
resize: important("resize"),
"max-height": textarea.height() + "px",
"overflow-y": "auto",
"word-wrap": "break-word",
position: "absolute",
left: "-7000px"
});
p.css({
margin: 0,
padding: 0,
"word-wrap": "break-word",
"letter-spacing": important("letter-spacing"),
"font-family": important("font-family"),
"font-size": important("font-size"),
"line-height": important("line-height")
});
pos = options && (options.pos || options.pos === 0) ? options.pos : getCaret(textarea[0]);
val = textarea.val().replace("\r", "");
if (options && options.key) {
val = val.substring(0, pos) + options.key + val.substring(pos);
}
before = pos - 1;
after = pos;
insertSpaceAfterBefore = false;
// if before and after are \n insert a space
if (val[before] === "\n" && val[after] === "\n") {
insertSpaceAfterBefore = true;
}
guard = function(v) {
var buf;
buf = v.replace(//g, ">");
buf = buf.replace(/[ ]/g, " ");
return buf.replace(/\n/g, "
");
};
makeCursor = function(pos, klass, color) {
var l;
l = val.substring(pos, pos + 1);
if (l === "\n") return "
";
return "" + guard(l) + "";
};
html = "";
if (before >= 0) {
html += guard(val.substring(0, pos - 1)) + makeCursor(before, "before", "#d0ffff");
if (insertSpaceAfterBefore) {
html += makeCursor(0, "post-before", "#d0ffff");
}
}
if (after >= 0) {
html += makeCursor(after, "after", "#ffd0ff");
if (after - 1 < val.length) {
html += guard(val.substring(after + 1));
}
}
p.html(html);
clone.scrollTop(textarea.scrollTop());
letter = p.find("span:first");
pos = letter.offset();
if (letter.hasClass("before")) {
pos.left = pos.left + letter.width();
}
pPos = p.offset();
return {
left: pos.left - pPos.left,
top: (pos.top - pPos.top) - clone.scrollTop()
};
};