Access HTML text layout information from JavaScript

Asked Oct 11 '12 at 15:15

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Is there any way in JavaScript to get information about how the browser has placed the line change(Newline) for text in a p tag?

What I need is the ability to move and draw something similar to a "cursor" within a p tag.
Left and right are easy enough to handle, but in order to move the cursor up/down I need to know where the browser has placed the line change, and I can't seem to find that. Is it possible?

What I am trying to do is a bit more complicated then then description above. This description is just the core of my problem.

I can't use a rich text area, and the real keyboard cursor to handle my use case.

edited Oct 11 '12 at 15:18

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asked Oct 11 '12 at 15:15

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`[contenteditable]` and a *lot* of ``s. – zzzzBov Oct 11 '12 at 15:16
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the "core" of your problem was already answered here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7431801/982924 – RASG Oct 11 '12 at 15:21
How would that work? tag's don't contain any line information – MTilsted Oct 11 '12 at 15:22
RAGS: That would work, but it seems like an ugly hacked way to do it . But I guess that mean that there is no direct javascript supported to do it -( – MTilsted Oct 11 '12 at 15:24

Access HTML text layout information from JavaScript

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