Question

When I try to do .focus() I expect to set focus on input element and to see cursor after last character of the value. And I see it in IE.

In safari/chrome input gets focus and all text is selected.
In firefox/opera input gets focus, but cursor is in the beginning.

What could I do to prevent that and get correct behavior for all browsers?

An example is here: http://jsbin.com/ozojol/edit#javascript,html

PS. focus().val('').val(value) method doesn’t work in IE… What other workarounds exist?

Answer 1

You can use the input’s selectionStart and selectionEnd properties in most browsers and some nasty TextRange stuff in IE < 9. Here’s some code adapted from an answer to a similar question.

Demo: http://jsbin.com/azapuy

Code:

function moveCaretToEnd(el) {
    if (typeof el.selectionStart == "number") {
        el.selectionStart = el.selectionEnd = el.value.length;
    } else if (typeof el.createTextRange != "undefined") {
        var range = el.createTextRange();
        range.collapse(false);
        range.select();
    }
}

var input = $('#i')[0];
input.focus();
moveCaretToEnd(input);