Inserting Text at cursor position in Textarea

We can insert simple text in Text area at cursor position using javascript

Below is the snippet.

var myTextArea = document.getElementById("mymessage");
var textInArea = myTextArea.value;
var textToInsert = '$Simple Text$';
var caretPosition = myTextArea.selectionStart;
myTextArea.value = textInArea.substring(0, caretPosition)
    + textToInsert  + textInArea.substring(caretPosition);


'selectionStart' property provides the cursor position in Textarea.

Simillarly getting cursor position in JQuery

$('#mymessage').prop("selectionStart")

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