[Solved] Finding screen/window position of input/textarea Carat

[wongadob]

I have a password entry box and I am trying to display the character that the user has entered. I am aware of the jQuery pluggin dpassword which replicates the iphone input, but I need a little more control. I have the system pretty much working based on another solution. However the one thing I need to know is how to find out the screen Top, Left position of the carat. Any ideas how I can get this. I have seen solutions that give you the character index into the text area, but I need the screen position as I want to display the currently entered character immediately infront of the last character. I am sure there must be some way of finding this out. even if it is just relative to the start of the password entry box (as I am sure I can get that's Top Left co-ordinate. Thanks for the help Wongadob

Edited August 21, 2012 by wongadob

[wongadob]

Is this possible? With 31 people reading this and no replies makes me worry that it can't be done?

[justsomeguy]

If you can get the position of the caret inside an element, you can also get that element's position to get the position of the caret on the page. http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=javascript+get+coordinates+of+caret&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

[wongadob]

Thanks that is what I did eventually. Multiplying by 6 (width of asterisk) to get screen poistion