And I checked my code again. It DOES work on FF3, FF2, and IE7.
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...