Re: propose an API to return Range in <textarea> etc. form control nodes (similar functionality as document.caretRangeFromPoint)

For a use case that pinpoint a word from a page, the context information
needed besides word might be the language that the word is in.And yes, as
you said, if the hit node is needed, elementFromPoint should do.

Thanks,
Xiaomei


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:04:52 +0200, Xiaomei Ji <xji@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Maybe I should propose Document.wordFromPoint() which  directly returns
>> the word under the mouse (and handles both the DOM node and non-DOM form
>> control nodes).
>> It hides the information about the node and should be a useful API.
>>
>
> Don't you need at least some context information as well besides just the
> word? Although I suppose you can get that using a combination of
> elementFromPoint and wordFromPoint...
>
>
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