A javascript function selects a certain word in a textarea using .setSelectionRange(). In Firefox, the textarea automatically scrolls down to show the selected text. In Chro
I published an answer here:
http://blog.blupixelit.eu/scroll-textarea-to-selected-word-using-javascript-jquery/
It works perfectly with jsut one needed rule: Set a line-height n the css of the textarea!
It calculate the position of the word to scroll to just by doing some simple mathematic calculation and it worked perfectly in all my experiments!
Feel free to ask me anything you need about the code!