IE's document.selection.createRange doesn't include leading or trailing blank lines

Question

I\'m trying to extract the exact selection and cursor location from a textarea. As usual, what\'s easy in most browsers is not in IE.

I\'m using this:

Answer 1

The move by negative bazillion seems to work perfectly.

Here's what I ended up with:

var sel=document.selection.createRange();
var temp=sel.duplicate();
temp.moveToElementText(textarea);
var basepos=-temp.moveStart('character', -10000000);

this.m_selectionStart = -sel.moveStart('character', -10000000)-basepos;
this.m_selectionEnd = -sel.moveEnd('character', -10000000)-basepos;
this.m_text=textarea.value.replace(/\r\n/gm,"\n");

Thanks bobince - how can I vote up your answer when it's just a comment :(