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I'm trying to set my cursor to the position of the beginning when I'm on focus of a text box. This is what I have:

$("ID").focus(function () {
    var input = this;
    setTimeout(function() {
        input.setSelectionRange(0, 0);
    }, 0);
});

But I get this error every time I try to load the script:

Uncaught InvalidStateError: Failed to execute 'setSelectionRange' on 'HTMLInputElement': The input element's type ('email') does not support selection.

Guess I can't use setSelectionRange on emails. So, any other solutions on how to set my cursor position in the input text box (without changing the type email)?

I'm trying to set my cursor to the position of the beginning when I'm on focus of a text box. This is what I have:

$("ID").focus(function () {
    var input = this;
    setTimeout(function() {
        input.setSelectionRange(0, 0);
    }, 0);
});

But I get this error every time I try to load the script:

Uncaught InvalidStateError: Failed to execute 'setSelectionRange' on 'HTMLInputElement': The input element's type ('email') does not support selection.

Guess I can't use setSelectionRange on emails. So, any other solutions on how to set my cursor position in the input text box (without changing the type email)?

• javascript
• jquery
• email
• html-input
• onfocus

Share Improve this question Follow edited Nov 21, 2022 at 8:32 sideshowbarker♦ 88.4k2929 gold badges215215 silver badges212212 bronze badges asked Oct 30, 2014 at 16:34 Norman InNorman In 19111 silver badge44 bronze badges 1

• 1 There is no way around it if you want to keep the type="email". The type="number" has the same issue... you could voice your opinion in the discussion on w3 (it is specifically for number inputs; I haven't searched for a email type input discussion). Similar to stackoverflow./questions/21177489/… – Mottie Commented Oct 30, 2014 at 16:56

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It is true, it seems that there is a bug when using the setSelectionRange function for email input. So what can be done is to modify the type of the input so that setSelectionRange works and not an error.

$('#ID').focus(function () {
    var input = this;
    setTimeout(function () {
        $(input).attr('type', 'text');
        input.setSelectionRange(0, 0);
        $(input).attr('type', 'email');
    }, 100);
});

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