window.getSelection().baseOffset is wrong

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If you select any text below beginning at the first character H, it will say the baseOffset of the selection is 5. In my real-life case it says 7. How do I correct this?

setInterval(()=>{
  console.log(window.getSelection().baseOffset);
}, 250);
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <div id='main'data-alignment="center">
    Hello World!
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

getselection html javascript
1 Answers

The result is correct, you have exactly 5 space characters between the end of <div id='main'data-alignment="center"> and the H, these will be counted as offset.

To avoid that, you can wrap your TextNode in a <span> element so that there is no offset.

Also, baseOffset is still not in the official specs, better use anchorOffset which I think does approximately the same thing (but is supported in all browsers).

document.onselectionchange = ()=>{
  console.log(window.getSelection().anchorOffset);
};
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <div id='main'data-alignment="center">
      <span>Hello World!</span>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

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