title: Is there a way to get the offset of the selected text within an input box in IE?
body: <p>In Firefox, you can simply call:</p>
  
  <p>myInputTextField.selectionStart or myInputTextField.selectionEnd</p>
  
  <p>to get the first and last indices of the selected text in the input box.</p>
  
  <p>In IE, I know that you can call document.selection.createRange() to fiddle with the selection a little bit.  For the life of me, however, I have not found any value that represents that character offset within the selection.</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something?  Is there any way to get the same value in IE?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>
  
  <p>Alex</p>