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getting i beam position on a <textarea>

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Sep 21.2005

Hello everyone, i was wonderting if there is a way to get the i beam
position (row#, col#) using javascript.
I am sort of making a html editor online and i would like to provide a
status bar with info about where exactly the i beam is, thank you.

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@KravvitzSep 21.2005 — [i]textarea[/i].selectionStart and [i]textarea[/i].selectionEnd work in Firefox, NS7.1+, and Opera 8+.

[url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/obj_textrange.asp]IE4+/Win you would need to use the TextRange object.[/url]

Safari, Omniweb, and Konqueror do not have a way to do this.
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@saulssauthorSep 21.2005 — thanks
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