OT Javascript scrolling textarea

[Randy Jonasz]

Hey Everyone,

This q is not specific to linux but I know there are quite a few
people on the list who know javascript really well.  I need to write
some javascript which will scroll a textarea down to where the caret
position is.  So far the code I have works for IE but not Firefox.
The code for firefrox is

Note: inpu = textarea

var ev = document.createEvent ('KeyEvents');
ev.initKeyEvent('keypress', true, true, window,false, false, false,
false, 0,inpu.value.charCodeAt(pos-1));
inpu.dispatchEvent(ev); // causes the scrolling
inpu.setSelectionRange(pos, pos);

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Randy

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