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I'm trying to implement a feature inside the current program that I'm writing and I wanna learn how to scroll down to specific text inside a JTextArea. For example, lets say I have the following: JTextArea area = new JTextArea(someReallyLongString); someReallyLongString would represent a paragraph, or a very large piece of text (in which the vertical scrollbar would be visible). And so what I am trying to do is scroll down to specific text within that text area. For example, lets say someReallyLongString contained the word "the" near the middle of the scrollbar (meaning this word is not

The old version of the question is below, after researching more, I decided to rephrase the question. The problem as before is, I need to focus a contenteditable div without highlighting the text, doing straight up focus highlights the text in Chrome. I realize that people solved this problems in textareas by resetting the caret position in the textarea. How can I do that with a contenteditable element? All the plugins I've tried only works with textareas. Thanks. Old Phrasing of the question: I have a contenteditable element that I want to focus, but only insofar as to place the cursor at the

Using jQuery, how can I get the input element that has the caret's (cursor's) focus? Or in other words, how to determine if an input has the caret's focus? // Get the focused element: var $focused = $(':focus'); // No jQuery: var focused = document.activeElement; // Does the element have focus: var hasFocus = $('foo').is(':focus'); // No jQuery: elem === elem.ownerDocument.activeElement; Which one should you use? quoting the jQuery docs : As with other pseudo-class selectors (those that begin with a ":"), it is recommended to precede :focus with a tag name or some other selector; otherwise,