How do you scroll to the position of the cursor in a textarea?

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<pre><code>textarea.blur()
textarea.focus()
</code></pre>

<p>Does the job.</p>

<p>Example: https://jsfiddle.net/syy25x69/</p>

<p>To select a text in IE see: Set textarea selection in Internet Explorer</p>

<p><strong>Update</strong></p>

<p>In order for this to work, I noticed that the selection must be collapsed. You can restore the selection later if you need to.</p>

<pre><code>// collapse selection here
textarea.blur()
textarea.focus() // this scrolls the textarea
// expand selection here
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<p>Another example: https://jsfiddle.net/rk8cL174/</p>
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<p>From Jonathan Levine's comment, I realized that this answer works for me.</p>

<p>Fiddle Demo</p>

<p><strong>JavaScript</strong></p>

<pre><code>$('#scroll-to-cursor').on('click', function() {    
    $('textarea').focus();
    $.event.trigger({ type : 'keypress' }); // works cross-browser

    // new KeyboardEvent('keypress'); // doesn't work in IE and Safari

    /* var evt = document.createEvent('KeyboardEvent');
    evt.initKeyEvent('keypress', true, true, null, false, false, false, false, 0, 32);
    $textarea.dispatchEvent(evt);

    evt = document.createEvent('KeyboardEvent');
    evt.initKeyEvent('keypress', true, true, null, false, false, false, false, 8, 0);
    $textarea.dispatchEvent(evt); */
});

/*
    To test:
    1) Click somewhere in the textarea to place cursor
    2) Scroll away so cursor isn't visible
    3) Click "Scroll to Cursor" button
*/
</code></pre>

<p><strong>Explanation</strong></p>

<p>When the user presses a key, the browser does two things:</p>

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<li>Places the key in the position after the cursor.</li>
<li>Scrolls to that position.</li>
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<p>This solution just simulates that (without actually entering any text).</p>

<p>Edit: The old solution isn't standards compliant. initKeyEvent is deprecated. The update only uses the KeyboardEvent() constructor, which is compliant and works in all browsers except IE (Safari is a question mark).</p>

<p>Edit 2: Using <code>$.event.trigger({ type : 'keypress' });</code> instead of <code>new KeyboardEvent()</code> works just as well, and works in all browsers.</p>
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<p>This is my spin on things.</p>

<p>I found that Audi Nugraha’s solution worked when testing, but not when I tried it in an Electron application.</p>

<p>A solution which did work for me was to position the cursor to the beginning and then blur/focus.</p>

<pre><code>textarea.selectionEnd = textarea.selectionStart = position;
textarea.blur();
textarea.focus();
</code></pre>

<p>I have incorporated the above into a function:</p>

<pre><code>function scrollTextarea(textarea,position) {
    textarea.selectionEnd = textarea.selectionStart = position;
    textarea.blur();
    textarea.focus();
}
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