Saving caretRange unaffectable by CssClassApplier

[Sascha Schmidt]

Hi.

Is there a way to use rangy to save the caret position so that it won't be affected by the CssClassApplier. Right now I'm using

start = document.caretRangeFromPoint(touch.pageX, touch.pageY);

to get the start of my range. If I'm later using the CssClassApplier on text that lies before the position start shifts around in the text.

The use case is very similar to text selection by mouse.

[Tim Down]

Hi Sascha,

You could use the selection save and restore module, which works by inserting hidden markers element in the DOM. These marker elements are removed when you restore the selection. These markers would be unaffected by the class applier.

https://code.google.com/p/rangy/wiki/SelectionSaveRestoreModule

Tim

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[Sascha Schmidt]

Hi Tim.

Thanks for you reply. This only seems to work for me a few times. I try to preserve the initial position by

rangy.restoreSelection(savedSel); 

var sel = rangy.getSelection();

savedSel = rangy.saveSelection(); 

and then continue with creating a range from sel and applying CSS to it. After 1 or 2 iterations I always get

Rangy warning: Module SaveRestore: Marker element has been removed. Cannot restore selection.

Any ideas on how to find out whats cause this?

greetings

[Sascha Schmidt]

Hi again.

So I managed to do it using the TextRange Module from rangy 1.3.

Strangely enough the result only seems to work if I use console.log somewhere during my highlighting process, but this should rater be a problem of my code than of rangy.

Thanks a lot.