Can I maintain textarea scroll position after editing text with javascript?

Question

I have something like a Text editor similar to the one used here (WMD Markdown Editor). The problem I have is after modifying text with JS, the textarea scrolls back to the top ...

http://jsfiddle.net/qTRhu/1/

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Answer 1

As I remember this is an issue with one browser particularly (firefox?). You need to save and restore the scrollbar position and (depending on your design) the selected text.

    var scrollTop = txtarea.scrollTop;

......

    txtarea.scrollTop = scrollTop;