How to get position from selected text in HTML?
the HTML content is rendered by setting innerHTML. For example 1. 2 is rendered 1. 2
The use is then selecting 2 with text selector.
const start = document.getSelection().anchorOffset
is working fine to get me the position in rendered text. Which is 5 is this case.
But is there some to get the position from HTML content (I think in this case it will be 20)
By the way great article to learn selection
No, that is not possible. The problem is that the DOM doesn't know about entities. It doesn't know whether the HTML source originally contained the entity or the literal Unicode character.
However you probably don't need it. You shouldn't be working with the HTML source at this point, but with the content of the DOM. You'll need to show much more code and describe the much bigger picture.