I am trying to annotate the word when hover over, which needs to differentiate those 2 hits.
Would appreciate your suggestions on how to solve the issue. Thanks, Xiaomei On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Xiaomei Ji <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using caretRangeFromPoint to convert mouse position to the character > position within an element. > I am trying to use it to achieve the same behavior as event.rangeParent and > event.rangeOffset in FireFox. So I think it should return different results > if hit test on a text node or the text node's parent element whose first > child is the text node. > > But the behavior of Document.caretRangeFromPoint() is different. > I attached a test case in this email. Following are the steps to show the > difference: > > 1. open the attached page > > 2. mouse click right before the first word "the" in the list, the container > node and offset in the range returned from caretRangeFromPoint() is the > text > node "the first", and offset 0. > > 3. mouse click some where in the empty space around the bullet before "the > first". caretRangeFromPoint() returns the same as the above. > > By comparison, open the above page in Firefox and repeat the above steps, you > will see the node (and offset) returned from event.rangeParent/rangeOffset in > FireFox are different if click on the text node and the element node. > > Does webkit have anyway to tell the difference (hit test hits different type > of nodes)? > Seems that none of document.caretRangeFromPoint()'s containerNodes, > event.target, and document.elementFromPoint() shows any difference in the > above 2 clicks. > > Should I propose a new API for such differentiation? > > > Thanks, > > Xiaomei > >
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