Hi, Nice work. One question: Is there a way to get the current caret posi

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Hi,

Nice work. One question:

Is there a way to get the current caret position? Anyhow? Directly, via JavaScript?
The use case would be to split one text out of your rich text editor into two.

Thanks

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Hey! There is not an official feature for this.

Now, I did some playing around with chrome inspector. There is a protected property named _editor, which has getSelection(giveFocus). It returns the index and range, where index is what you are looking for if no text is selected. In Chrome inspector, if I select the <vaadin-rich-text-editor> element, I can call this:

$0._editor.getText(0,$0._editor.getSelection(true).index)

getSelection gives the cursor position in plain text, so I used getText to get the plain text from the component.

This could be an enhancement to create API for in future versions.