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CaretPosition

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The CaretPosition interface represents the caret position, an indicator for the text insertion point. You can get a CaretPosition using the Document.caretPositionFromPoint() method.

Instance properties

This interface doesn't inherit any properties.

CaretPosition.offsetNode Read only Experimental

Returns a Node containing the found node at the caret's position.

CaretPosition.offset Read only Experimental

Returns a long representing the character offset in the caret position node.

Instance methods

CaretPosition.getClientRect Experimental

Returns the client rectangle for the caret range.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
CaretPosition No No 20 No No No No No 20 No No No
getClientRect No No 23 No No No No No 23 No No No
offset No No 20 No No No No No 20 No No No
offsetNode No No 20 No No No No No 20 No No No

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CaretPosition