Possible to scroll caret into view inside a single HTML text field with JavaScript?

Question

Knowing the jQuery Caret plugin, I\'m still seeing no way to do the following on a single line text box in HTML (i.e. the input:type=text control) with JavaScript:<

Answer 1

try to set the scrollLeft property of the input, as:

input.scrollLeft = 10000;

You can use scrollWidth to get a better guess on the final value, but using a high one can ensure correctness on most cases.