Question

I can get the actual position of the cursor in an input field. How can I get the whole word on this position. For example my input has the following text: Hello World, and the cursor is at position 2. How could I get Hello?

Answer 1

Came up with small piece. I split the string at the cursor position and get the last chars from the first substring and the first of the second one.

    var value = $(el).val()
    var split =  el.selectionStart
    var a = value.substring(0, split).match(/[A-Za-z]*$/)[0]
    var b = value.substring(split).match(/^[A-Za-z]*/)[0]
    console.log(a + b)