jQuery insertAtCaret

A jQuery plugin which inserts text to a text input, a textarea or a tag with contenteditable="true" at the caret's position.

Base code from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1064139/84042

Usage

If your text field contains 'Foo Bar' with the cursor positioned after 'Foo' then the following code would result in 'FooBar Bar':

$('textarea').insertAtCaret('Bar');

Changelog

[1.2.3] - 2023-08-23

• Chore: Repository URL updated

[1.2.2] - 2023-06-19

• Chore: Updates jQuery dependency. Now it requires at least 3.5.0 version.

[1.2.1] - 2023-06-19

• Fix: If the contentEditable element does not have focus it was adding the text to the active element. .focus() added to prevent that.

[1.2.0] - 2023-06-18

• Now it supports elements with contenteditable="true"

[1.1.5] - 2017-06-05

• If any text is selected, plugin overrides that selected part of the text with new text

[1.1.4] - 2015-09-22

• Corrected the name of the browser detection variable

[1.1.3] - 2015-08-08

• Changed naming of the core files.

[1.1.2] - 2015-08-06

• Added manifest file for jQuery Plugin Registry

[1.1.1] - 2015-08-05

• Added to npm and jQuery Plugin Registry

[1.1] - 2015-08-05

• 1.9+ jQuery support
• More minification
• ReadMe updated
• License updated

[1.0] - 2013-01-07

• Initial commit

License

Copyright (c) 2023 Emre Erkan
Licensed under GPLv2 or later.

Contributors:

• @kittsville
• @Nils-Berghs