textrange – Tarik Billa

Highlight text range using JavaScript

June 2, 2023 by Tarik

Below is a function to set the selection to a pair of character offsets within a particular element. This is naive implementation: it does not take into account any text that may be made invisible (either by CSS or by being inside a <script> or <style> element, for example) and may have browser discrepancies (IE … Read more

Get a range’s start and end offset’s relative to its parent container

January 10, 2023 by Tarik

UPDATE As pointed out in the comments, my original answer (below) only returns the end of the selection or the caret position. It’s fairly easy to adapt the code to return a start and an end offset; here’s an example that does so: function getSelectionCharacterOffsetWithin(element) { var start = 0; var end = 0; var … Read more