Jquery Setting cursor position in contenteditable div

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The old version of the question is below, after researching more, I decided to rephrase the question. The problem as before is, I need to focus a contenteditable div without highlighting the text, doing straight up focus highlights the text in Chrome.

I realize that people solved this problems in textareas by resetting the caret position in the textarea. How can I do that with a contenteditable element? All the plugins I've tried only works with textareas. Thanks.

Old Phrasing of the question:

I have a contenteditable element that
I want to focus, but only insofar as
to place the cursor at the front of
the element, rather selecting
everything.

elem.trigger('focus'); with jquery
selects all the text in the entire
element in chrome. Firefox behaves
correctly, setting the caret at the
front of the text. How can I get
Chrome to behave the way I want, or is
focus perhaps not what I'm looking
for.

Thanks all.

Best Answer

Maybe I'm misreading the question, but wouldn't the following do (assuming an editable <div> with id "editable")? The timer is there because in Chrome, the native browser behaviour that selects the whole element seems to trigger after the focus event, thereby overriding the effect of the selection code unless postponed until after the focus event:

var div = document.getElementById("editable");

div.onfocus = function() {
    window.setTimeout(function() {
        var sel, range;
        if (window.getSelection && document.createRange) {
            range = document.createRange();
            range.selectNodeContents(div);
            range.collapse(true);
            sel = window.getSelection();
            sel.removeAllRanges();
            sel.addRange(range);
        } else if (document.body.createTextRange) {
            range = document.body.createTextRange();
            range.moveToElementText(div);
            range.collapse(true);
            range.select();
        }
    }, 1);
};

div.focus();
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