My task is to set a text caret to appear inside an empty span node within a contentEditable div.
contentEditable
The following gives me no problems on Firefox 3.6:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.3.min.js"> </script> <style> #multiple { border: 1px solid #ccc; width: 800px; min-height: 20px; padding: 5px; outline: none; } </style> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ var contentEditable = document.getElementById('multiple'); var lastItem = contentEditable.getElementsByTagName('span').item(2); var selectElementText = function(el, win){ win = win || window; var doc = win.document, sel, range; if (win.getSelection && doc.createRange) { range = doc.createRange(); range.selectNodeContents(el); range.collapse(false); sel = win.getSelection(); sel.removeAllRanges(); sel.addRange(range); } else if (doc.body.createTextRange) { range = doc.body.createTextRange(); range.moveToElementText(el); range.select(); } } contentEditable.focus(); selectElementText(lastItem); }); </script> <title>Range Selection Tasks (Make Me Want to Cry)</title> </head> <body> <div id="multiple" contentEditable="true"> <span style="color:red">First</span><span style="color:green">Second</span><span style="color:blue"></span> </div> </body> </html>
Set the element's innerHTML to a zero-width character:
innerHTML
('element').innerHTML = 'ÈB';
Now the carret can go there.
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