// TODO: This code should be moved to lib, it was heavily modified by us over the years, and mostly written by us
// except for the little snippet from StackOverflow
//
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/263743/how-to-get-caret-position-in-textarea
var clone = null;
$.fn.caret = function(elem) {
var getCaret = function(el) {
if (el.selectionStart) {
return el.selectionStart;
}
return 0;
};
return getCaret(elem || 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, "");
}
};
important = function(prop) {
return styles.getPropertyValue(prop);
};
styles = getStyles(textarea[0]);
clone = $("
").appendTo("body");
p = clone.find("p");
var isRTL = $("html").hasClass("rtl");
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: isRTL ? "auto" : "-7000px",
right: isRTL ? "-7000px" : "auto"
});
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")
});
clone.width(textarea.width());
clone.height(textarea.height());
pos =
options && (options.pos || options.pos === 0)
? options.pos
: $.caret(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();
var position = {
left: pos.left - pPos.left,
top: pos.top - pPos.top - clone.scrollTop()
};
clone.remove();
return position;
};