Get Current Cursor Position

Get current cursor position in a textbox

It looks OK apart from the space in your ID attribute, which is not valid, and the fact that you're replacing the value of your input before checking the selection.

function textbox()

{

        var ctl = document.getElementById('Javascript_example');

        var startPos = ctl.selectionStart;

        var endPos = ctl.selectionEnd;

        alert(startPos + ", " + endPos);

}

<input id="Javascript_example" name="one" type="text" value="Javascript example" onclick="textbox()">

How to get current cursor position when editing fabric.Textbox

I sort of figured it out. selectionStart and selectionEnd did the trick:

var activeObj = canvas.getActiveObject();
var caretPositionStart = activeObj.selectionStart;
var caretPositionEnd = activeObj.selectionEnd;
activeObj.enterEditing();
activeObj.insertChars("HI", null, caretPositionStart, caretPositionEnd);

How to get the current text cursor position from Python in a Windows Terminal?

The problem was to locate the various Structure definitions. After having experimented significantly, I've got the following working solution.

#!/usr/bin/env python -u
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
from ctypes import windll, wintypes, Structure, c_short, c_ushort, byref, c_ulong
from readline import console

#------------------------------------------------
# Win32 API 
#------------------------------------------------
SHORT   = c_short
WORD    = c_ushort
DWORD   = c_ulong

STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE   = DWORD(-11)    # $CONOUT

# These are already defined, so no need to redefine.
COORD = wintypes._COORD
SMALL_RECT = wintypes.SMALL_RECT
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO = console.CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO

#------------------------------------------------
# Main
#------------------------------------------------
wk32 = windll.kernel32

hSo = wk32.GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)
GetCSBI = wk32.GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo

def cpos():
    csbi = CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO()
    GetCSBI(hSo, byref(csbi))
    xy = csbi.dwCursorPosition
    return '({},{})'.format(xy.X,xy.Y)

cls='\x1b[H'
print('\n'*61)
print(cls+'12345', end='', flush=True); print(' {}'.format(cpos()), flush=True)

# 12345 (5,503)

Get current cursor position

You get the cursor position by calling GetCursorPos.

POINT p;
if (GetCursorPos(&p))
{
    //cursor position now in p.x and p.y
}

This returns the cursor position relative to screen coordinates. Call ScreenToClient to map to window coordinates.

if (ScreenToClient(hwnd, &p))
{
    //p.x and p.y are now relative to hwnd's client area
}

You hide and show the cursor with ShowCursor.

ShowCursor(FALSE);//hides the cursor
ShowCursor(TRUE);//shows it again

You must ensure that every call to hide the cursor is matched by one that shows it again.

Get cursor position (in characters) within a text Input field

Easier update:

Use field.selectionStart example in this answer.

Thanks to @commonSenseCode for pointing this out.

Old answer:

Found this solution. Not jquery based but there is no problem to integrate it to jquery:

/*
** Returns the caret (cursor) position of the specified text field (oField).
** Return value range is 0-oField.value.length.
*/
function doGetCaretPosition (oField) {

  // Initialize
  var iCaretPos = 0;

  // IE Support
  if (document.selection) {

    // Set focus on the element
    oField.focus();

    // To get cursor position, get empty selection range
    var oSel = document.selection.createRange();

    // Move selection start to 0 position
    oSel.moveStart('character', -oField.value.length);

    // The caret position is selection length
    iCaretPos = oSel.text.length;
  }

  // Firefox support
  else if (oField.selectionStart || oField.selectionStart == '0')
    iCaretPos = oField.selectionDirection=='backward' ? oField.selectionStart : oField.selectionEnd;

  // Return results
  return iCaretPos;
}