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Asked: 2026-05-28T01:51:14+00:00

I am not sure if the | is called a keyboard cursor. Anyways I

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I am not sure if the | is called a keyboard cursor. Anyways I have an input control and I will like to get the coordinates of where the | is.

In other words if my input tag gas the text:

hello world | bla bla

then I will like to get the coordinates of the keyboard cursor. by taking a guess that looks like 80px towards the right and 5px towards the bottom.

I know how to get the position of the cursor and then I can estimate the location by counting the number of characters but that is not reliable because some letters are wider than others. In other words I will be able to tell that the cursor is at position 12 by using this technique.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can only have an exact value if you are using monospace fonts, and then multiplying the number of visible characters by the font width currently being used.

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