Bug 169124 – Remember cursor position in text field

• Status: NEW
• Component: Forms

[Anselm Hannemann]

User Story:

When as a user I focus on a text-field or textarea and enter some text, then position the curser somewhere inside the text (not at the start or end), then focus on a sibling field, and then focus back on the initial field, I expect the cursor to have the same position as before I left the focus on this field.

This works already in Firefox and I’d love to see this in Webkit as well, since it’s very useful, especially when tabbing around in form fields via the keyboard (so it might affect Accessibility positively as well).

Let me know if you need more information.

[Anselm Hannemann]

In Mozilla Firefox textareas and contenteditable fields remember their cursor position which is quite nice when one writes longer text on websites. That way one can tab through the form, go back to and continue writing exactly where left off. I’d love to see this behavior being added in Safari as well.

Adding this additional information as I found my old bug again when I wanted to report this today.