textarea-helper

Makes it possible to query the height of the textarea content and the XY coordinates of the caret position


Keywords
textarea, height, caret, position, xy, coordinates, mirror, autogrow
License
MIT
Install
bower install textarea-helper

Documentation

textareaHelper

A small library that mirrors a textarea's content onto a <div> to add some interesting functionality:

  • query the height of the textarea content
  • get the XY coordinates of the caret position

Demo.

Running the tests

open test/tests.html

Usage

$('#myText').textareaHelper();
$('#myText').textareaHelper(method);

Methods

.textareaHelper('height')

Get's the textarea's content height.

.textareaHelper('caretPos')

Get's the XY coordinates of the textarea's caret relative to the textarea.

.textareaHelper('destroy')

Destorys the helper mirror object. Use for cleanup.

License

MIT