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Selection: setPosition() method - Web APIs | MDN
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Selection: setPosition() method
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Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since August 2017.
The Selection.setPosition() method collapses the current selection to a single point. The document is not modified. If the content is focused and editable, the caret will blink there.
Note:
This method is an alias for the Selection.collapse() method.
Syntax
js
setPosition(node)
setPosition(node, offset)
Parameters
node-
The caret location will be within this node. This value can also be set to
null— ifnullis specified, the method will behave likeSelection.removeAllRanges(), i.e., all ranges will be removed from the selection. offsetOptional-
The offset in
nodeto which the selection will be collapsed. If not specified, the default value0is used.
Return value
None (undefined).
Examples
js
// Place the caret at the beginning of an HTML document's body.
const body = document.querySelector("body");
window.getSelection().setPosition(body, 0);
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Selection API # dom-selection-collapse |
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