Move mouse pointer in JavaScript

Solution 1:

I don't know about moving the actual rendered mouse pointer, but could you just set the focus on the element?

document.getElementById('the_text_input_id').focus()

Solution 2:

Please see this question:

Mouse move on element

Besides that, I think you are committing major design mistake by taking control of any of the users input in any way (maybe besides setting the focus of a form element)

Solution 3:

Here is a function that select text in an input or textarea:

function textSelect(inp, s, e) {
    e = e || s;
    if (inp.createTextRange) {
        var r = inp.createTextRange();
        r.collapse(true);
        r.moveEnd('character', e);
        r.moveStart('character', s);
        r.select();
    } else if (inp.setSelectionRange) {
        inp.focus();
        inp.setSelectionRange(s, e);
    }
}

To place the cursor at the 12^th position:

textSelect(document.getElementById('theInput'), 12);

To select a portion of the input field:

textSelect(document.getElementById('theInput'), 12, 15);

Solution 4:

It would be a huge [security?] issue if they allowed for something like this. Imagine: you have a setInterval(function(){moveMouseToTopLeftCorner and alert garbage}, 1)...
The user would have his mouse moved to the top left. And then alert would show up [which could be closed with enter].. upon which an alert would immediately pop up again.

You'd actually have to use your keyboard to open taskmanager and kill the browser >_>

However, it is probably possible with ActiveX [although thats IE only... and dumb]