This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
The offsetNode property of the CaretPosition interface returns a Node containing the found node at the caret's position.
A Node.
This example logs the offsetNode and offset of the caret position when clicking inside the input field.
<input aria-label="text field" value="Click inside this input field" />
document.querySelector("input").addEventListener("click", (event) => {
const x = event.clientX;
const y = event.clientY;
const caret = document.caretPositionFromPoint?.(x, y);
if (!caret) {
log("Not supported");
return;
}
const node = caret.offsetNode;
const offset = caret.offset;
log(`offsetNode: ${node}`);
log(`offset: ${offset}`);
});
| Specification |
|---|
| CSSOM View Module> # dom-caretposition-offsetnode> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
offsetNode |
128 | 128 | 20 | 114 | 18.4 | 128 | 20 | 85 | 18.4 | 28.0 | 128 | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CaretPosition/offsetNode