Title: Insert text at the current cursor position with JavaScript
Last modified: July 18, 2021

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# Insert text at the current cursor position with JavaScript

 *  [rockiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockiger/)
 * (@rockiger)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-text-at-the-current-cursor-position-with-javascript/)
 * I am trying to insert text into Gutenberg at the current position for a speech
   to text solution.
 * I am aware how to insert new blocks.
 *     ```
       const newBlock = wp.blocks.createBlock( "core/paragraph", {
           content: 'This is the content',
       });
       wp.data.dispatch( "core/editor" ).insertBlocks( newBlock );
       ```
   
 * But I can’t figure out how to add a string at the current cursor position. Could
   somebody please give me a hint. Any help appreciated.

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 *  [hiyottaunits](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiyottaunits/)
 * (@hiyottaunits)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-text-at-the-current-cursor-position-with-javascript/#post-14673325)
 * Hi [@rockiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockiger/) – You can try to
   use JavaScript to get the text(converted from speech) via API and insert that
   at the current cursor position.
 *  Thread Starter [rockiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockiger/)
 * (@rockiger)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-text-at-the-current-cursor-position-with-javascript/#post-14673797)
 * Thanks [@hiyottaunits](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiyottaunits/),
 * but what I don’t understand or don’t find, is an API, that lets me insert text
   at the current position in Gutenberg.
 *  [hiyottaunits](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiyottaunits/)
 * (@hiyottaunits)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-text-at-the-current-cursor-position-with-javascript/#post-14674195)
 * Hi [@rockiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockiger/) – You can take 
   a look at [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/trunk/packages/editor](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/trunk/packages/editor)
 * Some packages are not fully documented. You might dig into source codes to find
   what you want.
 *  [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveatty/)
 * (@steveatty)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-text-at-the-current-cursor-position-with-javascript/#post-14744825)
 * If you can work it out I’d be very interested as I basically have a plugin that
   under classic editor inserts text at the current cursor position.
 * I don’t want my code to insert a new block, I need it to insert text into the
   current text block at the current cursor position.
 * Surely there is a simple call for this?
 *  Thread Starter [rockiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockiger/)
 * (@rockiger)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-text-at-the-current-cursor-position-with-javascript/#post-14747556)
 * If there is a simple call provided by Gutenberg, I can’t find it.
 * Right now, my best bet is using the current window selection to insert text at
   the current cursor position:
 *     ```
       function insertTextAtCaret(text) {
           var sel, range;
           if (window.getSelection) {
               sel = window.getSelection();
               if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
                   range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
                   range.deleteContents();
                   range.insertNode( document.createTextNode(text) );
               }
           } else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) {
               document.selection.createRange().text = text;
           }
       }
       ```
   
 * At the end Gutenberg uses contentEditable.

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