Questions tagged [caret]
Caret refers to an onscreen text-cursor. For the R package, use the [r-caret] tag. For the ASCII character, use the [punctuation] tag.
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What's the difference between tilde(~) and caret(^) in package.json?
After I upgraded to the latest stable node and npm, I tried npm install moment --save. It saves the entry in the package.json with the caret ^ prefix. Previously, it was a tilde ~ prefix.
Why are ...
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How to get the focused element with jQuery?
Using jQuery, how can I get the input element that has the caret's (cursor's) focus?
Or in other words, how to determine if an input has the caret's focus?
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How to set the caret (cursor) position in a contenteditable element (div)?
I have this simple HTML as an example:
<div id="editable" contenteditable="true">
text text text<br>
text text text<br>
text text text<br>
</div>...
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Get contentEditable caret position
I'm finding tons of good, cross-browser answers on how to set the caret position in a contentEditable element, but none on how to get the caret position in the first place.
What I want to do is know ...
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How to get the caret column (not pixels) position in a textarea, in characters, from the start?
How do you get the caret position in a <textarea> using JavaScript?
For example: This is| a text
This should return 7.
How would you get it to return the strings surrounding the cursor / ...
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What does the caret (^) operator do?
I ran across the caret operator in python today and trying it out, I got the following output:
>>> 8^3
11
>>> 8^4
12
>>> 8^1
9
>>> 8^0
8
>>> 7^1
6
>>...
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Styling text input caret
I want to style the caret of a focused <input type='text'/>. Specifically, the color and thickness.
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contenteditable, set caret at the end of the text (cross-browser)
output in Chrome:
<div id="content" contenteditable="true" style="border:1px solid #000;width:500px;height:40px;">
hey
<div>what's up?</div>
<div>
<button id="...
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Carets in Regular Expressions
Specifically when does ^ mean "match start" and when does it mean "not the following" in regular expressions?
From the Wikipedia article and other references, I've concluded it means the former at ...
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Set the caret/cursor position to the end of the string value WPF textbox
I am try to set the caret/cursor position to the end of the string value in my WPF textbox when I open my window for the first time. I use the FocusManager to set the focus on my textbox when my ...
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Placeholder in contenteditable - focus event issue
I have been trying to ask this before, without any luck of explaining/proving a working example where the bug happens. So here is another try:
I’m trying to replicate a placeholder effect on a ...
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Hide textfield blinking caret
I have a text input in my HTML. Is there a way to hide the blinking text caret when the input gets focus?
I am open to doing this with JavaScript or CSS.
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Remove text caret/pointer from focused readonly input
I am using an <input readonly="readonly">, styled as normal text to remove the appearance of an interactive field, but still display the value.
This is very useful to prevent a user from ...
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Get element node at caret position (in contentEditable)
Let's say I have some HTML code like this:
<body contentEditable="true">
<h1>Some heading text here</h1>
<p>Some text here</p>
</body>
Now the caret (the ...
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Clojure caret as a symbol?
So I thought it would be a nice idea to name a function that calculates the exponential ^, but it seems like the caret actually does something special, as the Clojure REPL generates an error when ...
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jquery Setting cursor position in contenteditable div
The old version of the question is below, after researching more, I decided to rephrase the question. The problem as before is, I need to focus a contenteditable div without highlighting the text, ...
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SwiftUI TextField cursor colour
Currently the cursor/caret for my SwiftUI TextField is blue. Is there an API for cursor colour or a workaround?
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How do I change the current line highlight background in PyCharm?
The question says it all. I need the place to style the current line highlight.
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TextBox Caret Styling
I've found a few things on setting CaretBrushes in WPF4, but has anybody actually ever changed the caret itself?
What I'd like to do is use the OVERWRITE caret in INSERT mode. I've seen a hack from ....
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Use of caret symbol (^) in Ruby
1 ^ 1
# => 0
1 ^ 2
# => 3
5 ^ 6
# => 3
These are the results I am getting. Can, please, somebody explain how ^ works?
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Caret position in pixels in an input type text (not a textarea) [duplicate]
UPDATE: duplicate of Get cursor or text position in pixels for input element.
TL; DR - use the incredibly lightweight and robust textarea-caret-position Component library, which now supports <...
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Vue.js v-html contenteditable prevent dom refresh to keep cursor / caret from jumping
For reference I'm using Vue 2.0, Vuex, and Firebase.
I am building a contenteditable component using the v-html binding to render the innerHTML. The data is updated onKeyUp. Whenever the data is ...
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twitter bootstrap issue : Right align the caret in the dropdown header
I have an issue with the right alignment of the caret. Using .pull-right in the span makes it go to the top right corner.
How can I make it vertically centered again ?
I also would like to align the ...
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Changing bootstrap caret(color and position)
I want to change color of caret and make it not relative from input text, because it's hard to make it look good when it is.
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Set caret position at a specific position in contenteditable div
SEE BEFORE MARKING DUPLICATE/DOWNVOTING
The contenteditable div will not have child elements
I do not want to set the position at the end of the div
I do not want a cross-browser solution, only ...
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Caret position reverts to start of contenteditable span on re-render in React in Safari and Firefox
When typing text into a contenteditable span in Safari or Firefox the caret moves to the start on each keypress. This only seems to happen when React re/renders the component.
Chrome works just fine. ...
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Javascript: Move caret to last character
I have a textarea and when I click in it I want to move the caret to the last character so Something[caret]
function moveCaret(){
// Move caret to the last character
}
<textarea onclick="...
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Mobile Safari - Input caret does not scroll along with overflow-scrolling: touch
I know that Mobile Safari won't fire events while in "momentum" (-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;) scrolling. But this is not entirely the same thing, because Safari handles the (blinking) caret of ...
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JavaScript get word before cursor
Okay, I've been looking all over the web to find a solution but I couldn't find one, is there a way to get the word before the caret position in an editable div so a bit like:
This is some| demo ...
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RewriteRule ^ - [L] AKA RewriteRule caret dash L
While I could turn on Rewrite Logging and mess with this rule to figure out what it does (if anything), I bet someone already knows. Here's the rule by itself:
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
Here it is in ...
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How do you match a caret (^) symbol in regex?
I know these won't do it and also why, but how do you match it?
/^/
/(^)/
/[^]/
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Get caret coordinates on a contenteditable div through javascript.
I've been searching a lot but i could't find a way to get (X,Y) coordinates for the caret on a content editable div,there's a lot of content on the web about this,but the problem none of the pages i ...
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javascript – execute when textarea caret is moved
I have textarea and I want to change text that says what character is after the caret (cursor).
<textarea id="text"></textarea>
<br/>
Character after the caret: <span id="char"&...
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get last character before caret position in javascript
I am about to implement Facebook like in integration in my contenteditable div where if i give '$' and some character like 'a' i need a auto-suggestion which should pop up near my caret position.
I ...
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How do I get window.getselection to work for an input type=text field
I have a contenteditable div, like so:
<div id="test" contentEditable="true" style="width: 600px; height:300px;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</div>
for which I use the following code:
<...
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Auto text scroll for text area (JTextArea) with caret position set to the beginning of the last line
I have a simple Java question here. I want to auto text scroll to the beginning of the last line of a text area created using JTextArea. The amount of text per line of the text area is quite longer ...
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Accounting for `<br>`s in contenteditable caret position
To get and set the caret position in an contenteditable element, I've tried the code from this answer, but the start & end position resets as you move into different text nodes.
<div ...
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Move the cursor position with Javascript?
I'm looking to move the caret exactly four spaces ahead of its current position so that I can insert a tab properly. I've already got the HTML insertion at the caret's position working, but when I ...
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How to have transparent fonts except for the 'text-caret' in a textarea?
I have a simple textarea and I need to make transparent letters while allowing the text-caret to be visible. When I apply the following rules then I get invisible caret:
textarea {
background: ...
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How to avoid cmd.exe interpreting shell special characters like < > ^
I have a Windows CMD script that accepts a number of parameters and executes an EXE, passing first some hard-coded arguments and then all of the parameters from the user. The CMD script looks like ...
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Place caret back where it was after changing innerHTML of a contenteditable element
I need to update the innerHTML of a contenteditable P element after each keystroke, in JavaScript
(no jQuery)
I can't use an input or textarea instead of the P element.
It works fine, but the ...
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Java: column number and line number of cursor's current position
I want to know the column number and row number where the cursor in JTextArea.
ie. in notepad when i m at first line than status bar shows Ln 1, Col 1.
thanks in advance...
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Custom Caret for WinForms TextBox
I'm developing a custom HyperTerminal like application in a WinForms .Net 2.0 application. I have a multiline TextBox in a Panel in which you can interact with a hardware device.
My customer wants ...
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Why 10^1 is 11?
I am currently learning C++. I was trying to compute power of an integer using the expression:
val=10^1;
Instead of expected answer 10, the result was 11. I have fixed the problem by using pow ...
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Set the caret position always to end in contenteditable div [duplicate]
In my project, I am trying to set the caret position always to the end of the text. I know this is default behaviour but when we add some text dynamically, then the caret position changes to starting ...
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how to get the caret position of a contenteditable div which contains images
I have this contentedittable div
<div contenteditable="true" id="text">minubyv<img src="images/smiley/Emoji Smiley-01.png" class="emojiText" />iubyvt</div>
Here is an image ...
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Java - Scroll to specific text inside JTextArea
I'm trying to implement a feature inside the current program that I'm writing and I wanna learn how to scroll down to specific text inside a JTextArea. For example, lets say I have the following:
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How to move caret to start or middle of a line in PyCharm
If you hit the End key on your keyboard in PyCharm, the caret moves to the end of the line. Is there any key for going to the start or middle of a line in PyCharm?
If you press Ctrl+G, it asks you to ...
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Preprocessor macro using caret ^ symbol at the start of an expression
Looking at this page: http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2010-12-31-c-macro-tips-and-tricks.html
I found this snippet of code with ^{ ... }() syntax, what are the caret/brackets doing?
#define ...
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