javascript - "Scroll" to the very right of a long text input

Question

I have an image selector that allows to choose an image from a gallery, then fills in the URL into a <input type="text"> field. The URLs can be awfully long, and always seeing the first half of the URL in the text field has very little informational value.

Does somebody know a way to "scroll" to the very right of the text field so that the end of the URL is visible instead of the beginning? Without resorting to a textarea.

Answer 1

All browsers except IE6-8/Opera

Set HTMLInputElement.setSelectionRange() to the length of the input value after explicitly setting the focus(). The disadvantage is that it scrolls back to start once blurred.

var foo = document.getElementById("foo");
foo.value = "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1962168/scroll-to-the-very-right-of-a-long-text-input";
foo.focus();
foo.setSelectionRange(foo.value.length,foo.value.length);

<input id="foo">