Current Cursor Position in Text Area
Hi ALL
Requirement is to dynamically add a value to a text in text area.
Let’s say user is typing in the Text area, in between they can select a value from another dropdown. So, the value in the dropdown should be appended at the current cursor position in text box.
The main problem here is to find the current cursor position (it can be starting of text, middle or end).
I am looking for something similar to the “Insert Property” functionality in paragraph. I am not sure if there any way to customize that as it uses the third party CKEditor plugins.
Pega Version: 7.1.7
Regards
Bhavya
Accepted Solution
Updated: 26 Mar 2020 0:09 EDT
Coforge DPA
GB
Hi ALL
I was able to achieve the requirement.
Solution is added in below link :
https://collaborate.pega.com/discussion/get-current-cursor-position
Regards
Bhavya
Pegasystems Inc.
US
I don't think that there is OOTB feature for this.
Can you check the below link?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7745867/how-do-you-get-the-cursor-position-in-a-textarea
Northbridge
CA
Hi,
It seems to me that you can achieve this without getting the current position of text area’s cursor.
Configure OnChange post value on text area, so when you move out of text area you’ll always have the updated value and onChange of drop down or whatever field, post it’s value too and append it to textarea content using a DT probably and reload the Textarea section.
Have you already tried this? Any challenges with this? Or do you specifically need the current position of textarea content?
Coforge DPA
GB
Hi Shruthi
The example you gave will always append the value to end of string.
My scenario is that user can place the cursor anywhere in the text box and the value should be appended at that place.
Example:
Text: Hey, How are you?
Now lets say user want to append name after "Hey".
User moves the cursor after "Hey" , select the Username (Ex:Bhavya) from dropdown.
The text should now be : Hey Bhavya, How are you?
So the text can be anything and they could do the above steps multiple time at multiple places.
As I mentioned it should behave something similiar to "Insert Property" in paragraph rule.
Regards
Bhavya
Accepted Solution
Updated: 26 Mar 2020 0:09 EDT
Coforge DPA
GB
Hi ALL
I was able to achieve the requirement.
Solution is added in below link :
https://collaborate.pega.com/discussion/get-current-cursor-position
Regards
Bhavya
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
Hello Bhavya,
Thank you for sharing the resolution with an informative discussion post.
Regards,
Pallavi M | Moderator | Pega Collaboration Center