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    <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>As pointed out in the comments, my original answer (below) only returns the end of the selection or the caret position. It's fairly easy to adapt the code to return a start and an end offset; here's an example that does so:</p> <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="true" data-console="true" data-babel="false"> <div class="snippet-code snippet-currently-hidden"> <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>function getSelectionCharacterOffsetWithin(element) { var start = 0; var end = 0; var doc = element.ownerDocument || element.document; var win = doc.defaultView || doc.parentWindow; var sel; if (typeof win.getSelection != "undefined") { sel = win.getSelection(); if (sel.rangeCount &gt; 0) { var range = win.getSelection().getRangeAt(0); var preCaretRange = range.cloneRange(); preCaretRange.selectNodeContents(element); preCaretRange.setEnd(range.startContainer, range.startOffset); start = preCaretRange.toString().length; preCaretRange.setEnd(range.endContainer, range.endOffset); end = preCaretRange.toString().length; } } else if ( (sel = doc.selection) &amp;&amp; sel.type != "Control") { var textRange = sel.createRange(); var preCaretTextRange = doc.body.createTextRange(); preCaretTextRange.moveToElementText(element); preCaretTextRange.setEndPoint("EndToStart", textRange); start = preCaretTextRange.text.length; preCaretTextRange.setEndPoint("EndToEnd", textRange); end = preCaretTextRange.text.length; } return { start: start, end: end }; } function reportSelection() { var selOffsets = getSelectionCharacterOffsetWithin( document.getElementById("editor") ); document.getElementById("selectionLog").innerHTML = "Selection offsets: " + selOffsets.start + ", " + selOffsets.end; } window.onload = function() { document.addEventListener("selectionchange", reportSelection, false); document.addEventListener("mouseup", reportSelection, false); document.addEventListener("mousedown", reportSelection, false); document.addEventListener("keyup", reportSelection, false); };</code></pre> <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>#editor { padding: 5px; border: solid green 1px; }</code></pre> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>Select something in the content below: &lt;div id="editor" contenteditable="true"&gt;A &lt;i&gt;wombat&lt;/i&gt; is a marsupial native to &lt;b&gt;Australia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="selectionLog"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> </div> </div> </p> <p>Here's a function that will get the character offset of the caret within the specified element; however, this is a naive implementation that will almost certainly have inconsistencies with line breaks, and makes no attempt to deal with text hidden via CSS (I suspect IE will correctly ignore such text while other browsers will not). To handle all this stuff properly would be tricky. I've now <a href="https://code.google.com/p/rangy/wiki/TextRangeModule" rel="noreferrer">attempted it</a> for my <a href="https://code.google.com/p/rangy" rel="noreferrer">Rangy</a> library.</p> <p>Live example: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/TjXEG/900/" rel="noreferrer">http://jsfiddle.net/TjXEG/900/</a></p> <pre><code>function getCaretCharacterOffsetWithin(element) { var caretOffset = 0; var doc = element.ownerDocument || element.document; var win = doc.defaultView || doc.parentWindow; var sel; if (typeof win.getSelection != "undefined") { sel = win.getSelection(); if (sel.rangeCount &gt; 0) { var range = win.getSelection().getRangeAt(0); var preCaretRange = range.cloneRange(); preCaretRange.selectNodeContents(element); preCaretRange.setEnd(range.endContainer, range.endOffset); caretOffset = preCaretRange.toString().length; } } else if ( (sel = doc.selection) &amp;&amp; sel.type != "Control") { var textRange = sel.createRange(); var preCaretTextRange = doc.body.createTextRange(); preCaretTextRange.moveToElementText(element); preCaretTextRange.setEndPoint("EndToEnd", textRange); caretOffset = preCaretTextRange.text.length; } return caretOffset; } </code></pre>
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    2. CO@Travesty3: Yes: use the iframe's `Window` and `Document` objects instead of `window` and `document`. I've updated my answer and your example: http://jsfiddle.net/QcN4G/2/
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    3. CO@TimDown: Great, thanks! For my specific example (using TinyMCE), I actually found a simpler way: [`tinyMCE.execCommand('mceInsertContent', false, newContent);`](http://jsfiddle.net/QcN4G/3/), which I found [here](http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=12436#p12436). But +1 for the help!
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