I am very new to all of this. I want a user to be able to type anywhere in a text area. Wherever the cursor is when they click is where they start typing. Is this something that can be done in a textarea or is there a better way to make this happen in HTML?
It can be a way to fill your textarea with spaces and then you can type wherever you clicked on.
use JQuery :
var $contentTextarea = $("textarea[name='contents']");
var cols = Number($contentTextarea.attr("cols"));
var rows = Number($contentTextarea.attr("rows"));
for(var i = 0; i < cols; i++){
for(var j = 0; j < rows; j++ ){
$contentTextarea.append(" ");
}
$contentTextarea.append("\n");
}
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