When using contenteditable (on HTML5) you can listen to click/touch and key events to detect when the cursor position changes. It seems on iPad / Safari nothing fires when using a touch event to reposition the cursor.

Is there a method to detect the cursor position change?

When using contenteditable (on HTML5) you can listen to click/touch and key events to detect when the cursor position changes. It seems on iPad / Safari nothing fires when using a touch event to reposition the cursor.

Is there a method to detect the cursor position change?

• javascript
• html
• ipad
• contenteditable

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On WebKit and derivatives (including Safari, Chrome and Mobile Safari), and IE, you can use the selectionchange event of the document:

document.onselectionchange = function() {
    console.log("Selection changed!");
};

See also https://stackoverflow./a/13881312/96100