# TextField Woes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textfield-woes/146614>\
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**Created:** [May 2, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textfield-woes/146614 "2005-05-02T22:09:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textfield-woes/146614/1 "2005-05-02T22:09:29Z")

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is there anyway to get the x coordinate of teh caret w/ in a text field… i know of Selection.getCaretIndex() … but this simply returns the character value by which the caret is located…

and i know you could try to derive a formula using Selection.getCaretIndex() to estimate the x value… however this will not work with different fonts… any ideas???