396393 - Support something like elementFromPoint (rangeFromPoint?) that returns a range instead

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

People writing editing code need this, apparently. Basically I think the need is to figure out from x/y coordinates which character(s) of text are targeted.

So we really just need to return an element or node plus an offset. Returning a collapsed DOM Range seems like a reasonable way to do it.

Comment 1

[Neil Deakin]

Could just share this with event.rangeParent and event.parentOffset which does exactly that.

Comment 2

[Neil Deakin]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Could just share this with event.rangeParent and event.parentOffset which does
> exactly that.
> 

rangeParent and rangeOffset that is.

Comment 3

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Oh, I didn't know about those.

What do you mean by "share"?

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This sounds a lot like bug 654352 ( document.caretPositionFromPoint API )

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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