From: Hypolite Petovan <hypolite@mrpetovan.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:25:22 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Put cursor at end of default mentions in comment box
X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd03278ee9470f7a2adb1c2aa30d2cea8136aa31;p=friendica.git

Put cursor at end of default mentions in comment box
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diff --git a/view/templates/head.tpl b/view/templates/head.tpl
index 8631d76093..64af0a3a56 100644
--- a/view/templates/head.tpl
+++ b/view/templates/head.tpl
@@ -45,12 +45,45 @@
 <script type="text/javascript" src="view/js/main.js" ></script>
 <script>
 
-	var updateInterval = {{$update_interval}};
+	// Lifted from https://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/move-cursor-to-end-of-textarea-or-input/
+    jQuery.fn.putCursorAtEnd = function() {
+        return this.each(function() {
+            // Cache references
+            var $el = $(this),
+                el = this;
+
+            // Only focus if input isn't already
+            if (!$el.is(":focus")) {
+                $el.focus();
+            }
+
+            // If this function exists... (IE 9+)
+            if (el.setSelectionRange) {
+                // Double the length because Opera is inconsistent about whether a carriage return is one character or two.
+                var len = $el.val().length * 2;
+
+                // Timeout seems to be required for Blink
+                setTimeout(function() {
+                    el.setSelectionRange(len, len);
+                }, 1);
+            } else {
+                // As a fallback, replace the contents with itself
+                // Doesn't work in Chrome, but Chrome supports setSelectionRange
+                $el.val($el.val());
+            }
+
+            // Scroll to the bottom, in case we're in a tall textarea
+            // (Necessary for Firefox and Chrome)
+            this.scrollTop = 999999;
+        });
+    };
+
+    var updateInterval = {{$update_interval}};
 	var localUser = {{if $local_user}}{{$local_user}}{{else}}false{{/if}};
 
 	function confirmDelete() { return confirm("{{$delitem}}"); }
 	function commentExpand(id) {
-		$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).value = "";
+		$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).putCursorAtEnd();
 		$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).addClass("comment-edit-text-full");
 		$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).removeClass("comment-edit-text-empty");
 		$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).focus();
diff --git a/view/theme/frio/js/textedit.js b/view/theme/frio/js/textedit.js
index bf68d0f5dc..76a04a32f2 100644
--- a/view/theme/frio/js/textedit.js
+++ b/view/theme/frio/js/textedit.js
@@ -2,6 +2,39 @@
  * @brief The file contains functions for text editing and commenting
  */
 
+// Lifted from https://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/move-cursor-to-end-of-textarea-or-input/
+jQuery.fn.putCursorAtEnd = function() {
+	return this.each(function() {
+		// Cache references
+		var $el = $(this),
+			el = this;
+
+		// Only focus if input isn't already
+		if (!$el.is(":focus")) {
+			$el.focus();
+		}
+
+		// If this function exists... (IE 9+)
+		if (el.setSelectionRange) {
+			// Double the length because Opera is inconsistent about whether a carriage return is one character or two.
+			var len = $el.val().length * 2;
+
+			// Timeout seems to be required for Blink
+			setTimeout(function() {
+				el.setSelectionRange(len, len);
+			}, 1);
+		} else {
+			// As a fallback, replace the contents with itself
+			// Doesn't work in Chrome, but Chrome supports setSelectionRange
+			$el.val($el.val());
+		}
+
+		// Scroll to the bottom, in case we're in a tall textarea
+		// (Necessary for Firefox and Chrome)
+		this.scrollTop = 999999;
+	});
+};
+
 function commentGetLink(id, prompttext) {
 	reply = prompt(prompttext);
 	if(reply && reply.length) {
@@ -102,7 +135,7 @@ function cmtBbClose(id) {
 }
 
 function commentExpand(id) {
-	$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).value = '';
+	$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).putCursorAtEnd();
 	$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).addClass("comment-edit-text-full");
 	$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).removeClass("comment-edit-text-empty");
 	$("#comment-edit-text-" + id).focus();