Funny, it worked for me on IE7. And FF2. I didn't test it on 3 yet.
BTW if you already have a $ or $(document).ready, you must take the
code inside the curly braces and insert that into it.
On Jul 2, 5:37 pm, Paul Malan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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...
