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focus nested editable elements
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<!DOCTYPE html> | |
<html> | |
<head> | |
<meta charset="utf-8"/> | |
</head> | |
<style> | |
li { | |
display: block; | |
padding: 0 2px; | |
} | |
li.hover { | |
background: lightblue; | |
} | |
li:not(.show) { | |
display: none; | |
} | |
span { | |
padding: 0 0px; | |
background-color: #DDF; | |
} | |
span:not(:focus) + ul { /* the next sibiling, but ul is previous sibling*/ | |
display: none; | |
} | |
</style> | |
<body> | |
<div id="edit" contentEditable style="width:400px; border: 1px solid"> | |
wwwwww++++++ press $ to insert here a span</div> | |
<span id="suggest_div" contentEditable=False style="position: relative;"><ul id="suggest" style="position: absolute; z-index:99; top: 9px; left: 1px; padding: 0; width: 60.333px; background: white; border: 1px solid #ccc"> | |
<li style="color:blue">Edge</li> | |
<li style="color:red">Firefox</li> | |
<li style="color:purple">Firefo</li> | |
<li style="color:green">Chrome</li> | |
<li style="color:orange">Opera</li> | |
<li style="color:cyan">Safari</li> | |
</ul></span> | |
<script> | |
handle_hover = function(e){ | |
if (e.key=="ArrowDown" || e.key=="ArrowUp") { | |
active = document.querySelector('.show.hover') | |
// find next proposal | |
if (active) { | |
while (active = active[(e.key=="ArrowUp"? 'previous':'next') + 'ElementSibling']) { | |
if (active.classList.contains('show')) break | |
} | |
if (!active) { // stick to the element (first/last if not found) | |
e.preventDefault() | |
return | |
} | |
} | |
old = document.querySelector('.hover') | |
old && old.classList.remove('hover') | |
active && active.classList.add('hover') | |
e.preventDefault() | |
} | |
if (!e.key) { | |
// mouseover | |
old = document.querySelector('.hover') | |
old && old.classList.remove('hover') | |
e.target.classList.add('hover') | |
} | |
if (e.key == "Enter") { | |
apply_hit(active) | |
e.preventDefault() | |
} | |
} | |
function apply_hit(e) { | |
active = e.target || e | |
if (active) { | |
uu.innerHTML = '$' + active.innerHTML | |
uu.style.color = active.style.color | |
setEndOfContenteditable(uu); | |
} | |
//suggest.style.display = "none" | |
e.preventDefault && e.preventDefault(); // do not insert newline | |
return // prevent caret movement | |
} | |
focusToParent = function(e){ | |
console.log('blur', e); | |
//suggest.style.display = "none" | |
document.getElementById("edit").focus() | |
return false | |
} | |
suggest.onmouseover = handle_hover | |
suggest.onmousedown = apply_hit | |
handle_suggestentries = function(e) { | |
if (!["Enter", "ArrowLeft", "ArrowRight"].includes(e.key)) | |
suggest.style.display = "" | |
for (x of suggest.children) { | |
if (x.innerHTML.toLowerCase().match(uu.innerHTML.toLowerCase().replace("$",""))) | |
x.classList.add('show') | |
else x.classList.remove('show', 'hover') | |
} | |
// propose first element | |
document.querySelector('.show.hover') || | |
(active = document.querySelector('.show')) && active.classList.add('hover') | |
} | |
edit.onkeydown = function(e){ | |
if (e.key == "$") { | |
// open a span | |
uu = document.createElement('span') | |
uu.tabIndex = -1 | |
uu.onkeydown = handle_hover | |
uu.onkeyup = handle_suggestentries | |
uu.onblur = focusToParent | |
insertNodeAtCursor(uu) | |
uu.before(suggest_div) | |
} | |
} | |
document.getElementById("edit").onkeyup = function(e){ | |
// focus to child | |
sel = window.getSelection(); | |
foc = sel.focusNode.parentElement | |
console.log('up', foc, e.target,document.getElementById("edit")) | |
if (foc.tagName == "SPAN" && e.target==document.getElementById("edit")) { | |
foc.focus() | |
} | |
} | |
function insertNodeAtCursor(node) { | |
let selection = window.getSelection() | |
let range = selection.getRangeAt(0); | |
range.deleteContents() | |
range.insertNode(node) | |
setEndOfContenteditable(uu) | |
//uu.focus() | |
} | |
function setEndOfContenteditable(contentEditableElement) { | |
var range = document.createRange(); //Create a range (a range is a like the selection but invisible) | |
range.selectNodeContents(contentEditableElement); //Select the entire contents of the element with the range | |
range.collapse(false);//collapse the range to the end point. false means collapse to end rather than the start | |
var selection = window.getSelection();//get the selection object (allows you to change selection) | |
selection.removeAllRanges();//remove any selections already made | |
selection.addRange(range);//make the range you have just created the visible selection | |
} | |
</script> | |
<p onclick="browser.focus()"><strong>Note:</strong> The datalist tag is not supported in Safari 12.0 (or earlier).</p> | |
</body> | |
</html> |
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https://gistpreview.github.io/?78fb1f2af80115a6b59f813407892186
Revision 2:
Simplified a lot. It can be handled with focus alone (no caret manipulation).
Almost perfect. Only when moving to the right border of the nested span, there appears a small flash of the parent border.
Another small issue is that a char insert before the nested div removes the space. But it does not occur with nested spans.
Revision 3: always mark a proposal (default: first entry)
https://gistpreview.github.io/?3bdffdb10386ad9f8e3be2dcf84fb3a3