Event to detect when the text in an <input> is scrolled?
There is no specific event for this that will work across browsers. Firefox does fire a scroll
event when the text "scrolls" by changing the insertion point, but Chrome and likely other browsers don't.
Here is a list of events that could change the insertion point.
input
keydown
keyup
focus
blur
click
change
paste
cut
scroll
wheel
dragover
Binding an event listener to all of these should be enough to respond to the insertion point changing. I believe the list above is complete, but if I have missed any, let me know!
Have you tried the Caret Plugin?
You can get the position of the caret with:
pos = $(textarea).caret()
and catch when it changes again. If the latter is different than the first then you know the user has moved inside the input.