[javascript] Set cursor position on contentEditable <div>

After playing around I've modified eyelidlessness' answer above and made it a jQuery plugin so you can just do one of these:

var html = "The quick brown fox";
$div.html(html);

// Select at the text "quick":
$div.setContentEditableSelection(4, 5);

// Select at the beginning of the contenteditable div:
$div.setContentEditableSelection(0);

// Select at the end of the contenteditable div:
$div.setContentEditableSelection(html.length);

Excuse the long code post, but it may help someone:

$.fn.setContentEditableSelection = function(position, length) {
    if (typeof(length) == "undefined") {
        length = 0;
    }

    return this.each(function() {
        var $this = $(this);
        var editable = this;
        var selection;
        var range;

        var html = $this.html();
        html = html.substring(0, position) +
            '<a id="cursorStart"></a>' +
            html.substring(position, position + length) +
            '<a id="cursorEnd"></a>' +
            html.substring(position + length, html.length);
        console.log(html);
        $this.html(html);

        // Populates selection and range variables
        var captureSelection = function(e) {
            // Don't capture selection outside editable region
            var isOrContainsAnchor = false,
                isOrContainsFocus = false,
                sel = window.getSelection(),
                parentAnchor = sel.anchorNode,
                parentFocus = sel.focusNode;

            while (parentAnchor && parentAnchor != document.documentElement) {
                if (parentAnchor == editable) {
                    isOrContainsAnchor = true;
                }
                parentAnchor = parentAnchor.parentNode;
            }

            while (parentFocus && parentFocus != document.documentElement) {
                if (parentFocus == editable) {
                    isOrContainsFocus = true;
                }
                parentFocus = parentFocus.parentNode;
            }

            if (!isOrContainsAnchor || !isOrContainsFocus) {
                return;
            }

            selection = window.getSelection();

            // Get range (standards)
            if (selection.getRangeAt !== undefined) {
                range = selection.getRangeAt(0);

                // Get range (Safari 2)
            } else if (
                document.createRange &&
                selection.anchorNode &&
                selection.anchorOffset &&
                selection.focusNode &&
                selection.focusOffset
            ) {
                range = document.createRange();
                range.setStart(selection.anchorNode, selection.anchorOffset);
                range.setEnd(selection.focusNode, selection.focusOffset);
            } else {
                // Failure here, not handled by the rest of the script.
                // Probably IE or some older browser
            }
        };

        // Slight delay will avoid the initial selection
        // (at start or of contents depending on browser) being mistaken
        setTimeout(function() {
            var cursorStart = document.getElementById('cursorStart');
            var cursorEnd = document.getElementById('cursorEnd');

            // Don't do anything if user is creating a new selection
            if (editable.className.match(/\sselecting(\s|$)/)) {
                if (cursorStart) {
                    cursorStart.parentNode.removeChild(cursorStart);
                }
                if (cursorEnd) {
                    cursorEnd.parentNode.removeChild(cursorEnd);
                }
            } else if (cursorStart) {
                captureSelection();
                range = document.createRange();

                if (cursorEnd) {
                    range.setStartAfter(cursorStart);
                    range.setEndBefore(cursorEnd);

                    // Delete cursor markers
                    cursorStart.parentNode.removeChild(cursorStart);
                    cursorEnd.parentNode.removeChild(cursorEnd);

                    // Select range
                    selection.removeAllRanges();
                    selection.addRange(range);
                } else {
                    range.selectNode(cursorStart);

                    // Select range
                    selection.removeAllRanges();
                    selection.addRange(range);

                    // Delete cursor marker
                    document.execCommand('delete', false, null);
                }
            }

            // Register selection again
            captureSelection();
        }, 10);
    });
};

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