Cursor position in a UITextView

Question

I am looking for a non private way to find the position of the Cursor or Caret (blinking bar) in a UITextView preferably as a CGPoint.

There may be a question like this already but it does not provide a definitive way for doing it. And, I do not mean the NSRange of the selected area.

Answer 1

Just got it in another thread:

Requires iOS 3.2 or later.

CGPoint cursorPosition = [textview caretRectForPosition:textview.selectedTextRange.start].origin;

Remember to check that selectedTextRange is not nil before calling this method. You should also use selectedTextRange.empty to check that it is the cursor position and not the beginning of a text range. So:

if (textview.selectedTextRange.empty) {
// get cursor position and do stuff ...
}

Pixel-Position of Cursor in UITextView

Answer 2

SWIFT 2.1 version:

let cursorPosition = infoTextView.caretRectForPosition( (infoTextView.selectedTextRange?.start)! ).origin

print("cursorPosition:\(cursorPosition)")