- From: Siye Liu via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 18:05:23 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Hi Keith, I think what you want is the selection bounds regardless of where is current selection. For contenteditable div, you can get current selection bounds using `document.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).getBoundingClientRect()`. For textarea/input element, there is no way to get selection bounds today. Instead of adding `currentCaretPosition()` API on Element, I would like to propose the following: ``` partial interface HTMLTextAreaElement { [NewObject] DOMRect getSelectionBoundingClientRect(); } partial interface HTMLInputElement { [NewObject] DOMRect getSelectionBoundingClientRect(); } ``` `getSelectionBoundingClientRect()` would return the bounding rect of current selection in textarea/input element. The bounding rect is the caret rect if the selection is collapsed. If there is no active selection in textarea/input, it would return empty rect. The new proposed API aligns with existing selection APIs on textarea/input such as [`select()`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-textarea-element:dom-textarea/input-select), [`selectionStart`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-textarea-element:dom-textarea/input-selectionstart), [`selectionEnd`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-textarea-element:dom-textarea/input-selectionend), etc. -- GitHub Notification of comment by siliu1 Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10346#issuecomment-2130103293 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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