Caret position in pixels in an input type text (not a textarea) [duplicate]

Answer 1

function getCursorPosition (elem) {
  var pos = 0;  
  if (document.selection) {
    elem.focus ();
    var sele = document.selection.createRange();
    sele.moveStart('character', -elem.value.length);
    pos = sele.text.length;
  }
  else if (elem.selectionStart || elem.selectionStart == '0')
    pos = elem.selectionStart;
  return pos;
}​

getCursorPosition(document.getElementById('textbox1'))