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Implementing it in HTML/CSS/JS certainly poses an interesting problem because, as far as I know, one cannot directly access individual, dynamically broken lines
by 3rd3 12y ago
Implementing it in HTML/CSS/JS certainly poses an interesting problem because, as far as I know, one cannot directly access individual, dynamically broken lines of text. One would probably have to wrap each word in a container and keep track of the absolute positions.
- assaflavie 12y agoVery true. I got a rough POC of this, implemented using the technique in this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22816419/11208 http://stackoverflow.com/a/22816419/11208 (just with divs instead of images) It's very brittle though. It relies on knowing the line-height, calculating the line in which the highlighted word sits, accounting for the existence of vertical scroll-bars... not trivial.
- 3rd3 12y agoAh, that was surprisingly easy: http://jsfiddle.net/5p92U/ http://jsfiddle.net/5p92U/ Or am I missing something? Edit: Yes, I do. It does not work together with images on the right side: http://jsfiddle.net/Nup2F/ http://jsfiddle.net/Nup2F/
- Adirael 12y agoYou can use getSelection() to do that, but it doesn't work everywhere. [0] [1] [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7563169/detect-which-word-has-been-clicked-on-within-a-text https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7563169/detect-which-wor... [1] http://jsfiddle.net/Vap7C/15/ http://jsfiddle.net/Vap7C/15/
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