How to set caret(cursor) position in contenteditable element (div)?

Question

I have this simple HTML as an example:

  text text text

  text text text

  text text         


        
      

Answer 1

Based on Tim Down's answer, but it checks for the last known "good" text row. It places the cursor at the very end.

Furthermore, I could also recursively/iteratively check the last child of each consecutive last child to find the absolute last "good" text node in the DOM.

function onClickHandler() {
  setCaret(document.getElementById("editable"));
}

function setCaret(el) {
  let range = document.createRange(),
      sel = window.getSelection(),
      lastKnownIndex = -1;
  for (let i = 0; i < el.childNodes.length; i++) {
    if (isTextNodeAndContentNoEmpty(el.childNodes[i])) {
      lastKnownIndex = i;
    }
  }
  if (lastKnownIndex === -1) {
    throw new Error('Could not find valid text content');
  }
  let row = el.childNodes[lastKnownIndex],
      col = row.textContent.length;
  range.setStart(row, col);
  range.collapse(true);
  sel.removeAllRanges();
  sel.addRange(range);
  el.focus();
}

function isTextNodeAndContentNoEmpty(node) {
  return node.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE && node.textContent.trim().length > 0
}

  text text text
text text text
text text text


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