Get bounding rectangle of selected text javascript

Question

I use this code How can I position an element next to user text selection? to get the position of the selected text, but it doesn\'t work for the selected text inside an input.

Answer 1

If you just need to get the position where the user doubleclicked, use the following snippet.

$('#thatInput').on('dblclick', function (e) {
  alert('Position X: ' + e.clientX + '\nPosition Y: ' + e.clientY);
});