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It doesn’t use canvas

• copperx 9y ago
  Having never looked at the source, I'm curious about how you build an editor using web technologies. Is it just a big textarea that gets manipulated with JS?
  • simlevesque 9y ago
    It's not one large textarea. There is a textarea which is 1x1 and right next to the cursor. I have no idea what they are for. Just open the dev tools and have some fun. You'll learn a lot.
    • lobster_johnson 9y ago
      The textarea is to accept input, presumably. It's a trick often used in a normal browser HTML page, too. You get focus, keypresses, copy/paste, etc. via the native browser UI. It's a shame that HTML doesn't provide something similar, but as a hack it's not too bad.