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es2015 version of insertAtCaret method
function insertAtCaret(text) {
const txtarea = document.activeElement;
const scrollPos = txtarea.scrollTop;
let strPos = 0;
const br = ((txtarea.selectionStart || txtarea.selectionStart == '0') ? "ff" : (document.selection ? "ie" : false ));
if (br == "ie") {
txtarea.focus();
const range = document.selection.createRange();
range.moveStart('character', -txtarea.value.length);
strPos = range.text.length;
} else if (br == "ff") {
strPos = txtarea.selectionStart;
}
const front = (txtarea.value).substring(0,strPos);
const back = (txtarea.value).substring(strPos,txtarea.value.length);
txtarea.value = front+text+back;
strPos = strPos + text.length;
if (br == "ie") {
txtarea.focus();
const range = document.selection.createRange();
range.moveStart ('character', -txtarea.value.length);
range.moveStart ('character', strPos);
range.moveEnd ('character', 0);
range.select();
} else if (br == "ff") {
txtarea.selectionStart = strPos;
txtarea.selectionEnd = strPos;
txtarea.focus();
}
txtarea.scrollTop = scrollPos;
}
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