Use JavaScript to place cursor at end of text in text input element

Question

What is the best way (and I presume simplest way) to place the cursor at the end of the text in a input text element via JavaScript - after focus has been set to the element

Answer 1

I tried the suggestions before but none worked for me (tested them in Chrome), so I wrote my own code - and it works fine in Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome...

In Textarea:

onfocus() = sendCursorToEnd(this);

In Javascript:

function sendCursorToEnd(obj) { 
var value = obj.value; //store the value of the element
var message = "";
if (value != "") {
    message = value + "\n";
};
$(obj).focus().val(message);}