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Nile tilapiaOP
Does anyone know if there is a way to edit the typing caret? i am trying to recreate the typing caret from the linux terminal
https://i.givemeyourcreditcard.info/71yofyvg.png

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try caret-shape: block nah this one is not supported in browsers
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Nile tilapiaOP
1 sec I can look when I get to my pc
damn and the way they show you can fake it is not actually in a input
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oh... i didn't see that
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Nile tilapiaOP
its fine
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but yeah safe to say there is no easy way to do this, you need some css shenanigans or js libs
browsers dont support that css property yet
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Nile tilapiaOP
do you know any ts libs that can do something like this?
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i don't know any, but searching for some at the moment
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you can use monaco editor if it's suitable for your purpose, it has cursorStyle: "block"
but it's not for every type of input
that's the only way i can find honestly. other than that, you can kinda do it by
* get the position of the caret (search on google, there are some stackoverflow questions with working but ugly code but that's the best we can do)
* use css to render a fake blinking rectangle absolutely positioned to the position calculated above
* use caret-color to hide the caret
but i can't imagine the amount of edge cases this method has. what if someone resizes the browser? what to do when the input is unfocused? and a ton of other questions that you need to answer
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Nile tilapiaOP
does it work on the default text input
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No it doesn’t
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Nile tilapiaOP
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then what does it work with
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Go read what it is
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Nile tilapiaOP
i might just wait until they add native support because i cant find anything on monaco editor for react i may just be blind and dont feel like messing around with a very not well put together work around