Getting keypress cursor co-ordinates

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Published on 2010-04-12T09:29:43Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 9:33 UTC
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I'm writing a simple browser based ide with intellisense (code completion) support. So whenever the user inserts a dot (.) character, I need to display a div element (as context menu) near the cursor.

Can this can be done and if yes how?

Thanks in advance!

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