this was not fixed still.... when resizing the rect of a name field the caret was messing up. These scripts you guys provided helped a ton!

This bug is confirmed in 5.1.1 and 5.1.2. All scaled inputField have this behaviour. This is an absolutely unacceptable bug, yet probably so simple to fix.

This error seems to be back in full force. My UI carets were aligned beautifully before I updated to 5.1. now they're all showing up below the actual character by about a whole character's height.

Sigh -- sorry my code below I forgot a line:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class CaretStick:MonoBehaviour, ISelectHandler
{
private bool alreadyFixed;
public void OnSelect(BaseEventData eventData)
{
if (alreadyFixed) return;

RectTransform caretTransform = (RectTransform)transform.Find(gameObject.name+" Input Caret");
if(caretTransform == null) return;

caretTransform.Translate(Vector3.up * 10f);
caretTransform.Translate(Vector3.right * 5f);

alreadyFixed = true;
}
}

Here's a trivial script that fixes it, for sure. Just setting the values manually for your project. Just attach this to each InputField. Set the values as you wish.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class CaretStick:MonoBehaviour, ISelectHandler
{
public void OnSelect(BaseEventData eventData)
{
RectTransform caretTransform = (RectTransform)transform.Find(gameObject.name+" Input Caret");
if(caretTransform == null) return;

caretTransform.Translate(Vector3.up * 17f);
caretTransform.Translate(Vector3.right * 5f);
}
}

That code fix didn't work for me. I needed to manually offset because if I matched the text transform, the font size was throwing off the Caret quite a bit. Here's some code to position the Caret to a custom value.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;

[RequireComponent(typeof(InputField))]
public class CaretFix : MonoBehaviour {

public float caretOffset = 20f;

public void OnCaretFix()
{
InputField ipFld = this.gameObject.GetComponent<InputField>();
RectTransform caretTransform = (RectTransform)transform.Find(gameObject.name+" Input Caret");
caretTransform.Translate(Vector3.up * caretOffset);
}
}

I am having the same issue too in Unity 4.6.5, would be lovely to get it fixed please.

I'm experiencing this problem in Unity 4.6.5. To work around it, I had to set my "Text" object's Y pivot to 0.9. It is now in roughly the right place.

It is possible to temporarily fix this with this code:
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
using System.Collections;

public class FixInputFieldCaret : MonoBehaviour, ISelectHandler {

public void OnSelect(BaseEventData eventData) {
InputField ipFld = gameObject.GetComponent<InputField>();
if(ipFld != null) {
RectTransform textTransform = (RectTransform)ipFld.text.transform;
RectTransform caretTransform = (RectTransform)transform.Find(gameObject.name+" Input Caret");
if(caretTransform != null && textTransform != null) {
caretTransform.localPosition = textTransform.localPosition;
}
}
}
}