Selection: setPosition() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since August 2017.

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The Selection.setPosition() method collapses the current selection to a single point. The document is not modified. If the content is focused and editable, the caret will blink there.

Note: This method is an alias for the Selection.collapse() method.

Syntax

setPosition(node)
setPosition(node, offset)

Parameters

node: The caret location will be within this node. This value can also be set to null — if null is specified, the method will behave like Selection.removeAllRanges(), i.e., all ranges will be removed from the selection.
offset Optional: The offset in node to which the selection will be collapsed. If not specified, the default value 0 is used.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

// Place the caret at the beginning of an HTML document's body.
const body = document.querySelector("body");
window.getSelection().setPosition(body, 0);

Specifications

Specification
Selection API # dom-selection-collapse

Browser compatibility

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`setPosition()` as alias of `collapse()`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 14 (Release date: 2016-08-02) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 55 (Release date: 2017-08-08) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 1.3 (Release date: 2005-04-15) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 55 (Release date: 2017-08-08) footnote Full support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 14 (Release date: 2013-05-21) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29) footnote Full support

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