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Currently when I have following HTML code in web page:
<div contenteditable="true">
Some content
</div>
and view it via Android-2.3, I don’t see caret.
It exist but is invisible because when I long-press menu button (to force soft keyboard),
I can input characters into that div.
So, does anyone know how to force show caret inside that div?
According to this blog post on contenteditable in mobile WebKit, this is a bug in the Android / WebKit source. Considering that it was reported as a bug report in July 2010, it doesn’t seem to have a high priority. However, WebKit is open source and you can always consider signing up and fixing the bug yourselves.
This effectively prevents using editors such as TinyMCE, CKEditor, YahooUI from a mobile device, or at least, you won’t be able to see the caret. Sorry that I don’t have better news.
PS: I noticed that it is also not possible to select text in a ContentEditable field, which is a related bug.
PPS: not sure whether it is possible to use JavaScript to get the caret position. If it is possible, you might be able to mimic the behavior of a caret by drawing a vertical line and let it blink. Maybe this is what Google Docs did to make it working on the Android?