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    copied!<p>What Im trying to do is - i dont know the name maybe - a Prediction Help Inputter inside a textarea. It uses jquery autocomplete. When the user types '[[g ' inside textarea (id=test), a input with autocomplete is opened (id=example), so it search in 'data'. When the user find the desired data, he must press Shif+Enter to insert the data into the textarea, closing with ']]'.</p> <p><strong>How could I find the position of the carret to make the input appears near there?</strong></p> <p>I dont want to find the index of the carret, but something like the x y absolute position.</p> <p>What do you suggest me?</p> <p>Code above:</p> <pre><code>&lt;textarea onkeydown="predicao(this);" cols="40" rows="10" id="test" onfocus="this.focus()"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;input id="example" style="display: none;" onkeyup="insert(this, event);"/&gt; &lt;script language="Javascript"&gt; &lt;!-- function predicao(objeto){ comprimento = objeto.value.length; var antipenultimo = comprimento - 4; var input = objeto.value.substring(antipenultimo,comprimento); var output = ""; for(i=0; i&lt;input.length; ++i){ if(output != "") output += ", "; output += input.charCodeAt(i); } if (output == "91, 91, 103, 32"){ var preditor = document.getElementById('example'); preditor.value = ''; preditor.style.display = 'block'; preditor.focus(); preditor.select(); } } function insert(objeto, evt){ var e = evt || event; var code = e.keyCode || e.which; if(e.shiftKey &amp;&amp; code == '13') { var texto = document.getElementById('test').value; texto += objeto.value+']]'; document.getElementById('test').focus(); document.getElementById('test').value = texto; objeto.style.display = 'none'; } } $(document).ready(function(){ var data = "Afrikaans Català Deutsch English Esperanto Suomi Français Galego Hrvatski Magyar Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Basa Jawa".split(" "); $("#example").autocomplete(data);}); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre>
 

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