No, there isn't. IE has its TextRange objects to do the job. IE >= 9 and everything else for the last long time has selectionStart and selectionEnd properties on textareas and text inputs.
This particular task isn't too bad: the following will insert text at the end of the selection and reposition the caret immediately after the inserted text, in all the major browsers.
Implement both: the code that is supporting FF and the Code supporing the IE. You can use Frameworks to write Code for both browsers. Than the Framework will do the work of splitting the differences between the browsers.
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