react/packages/react-dom/src/client/getNodeForCharacterOffset.js

/**
 * Copyright (c) 2013-present, Facebook, Inc.
 *
 * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
 * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 */

import {TEXT_NODE} from '../shared/HTMLNodeType';

/**
 * Given any node return the first leaf node without children.
 *
 * @param {DOMElement|DOMTextNode} node
 * @return {DOMElement|DOMTextNode}
 */
function getLeafNode(node) {
  while (node && node.firstChild) {
    node = node.firstChild;
  }
  return node;
}

/**
 * Get the next sibling within a container. This will walk up the
 * DOM if a node's siblings have been exhausted.
 *
 * @param {DOMElement|DOMTextNode} node
 * @return {?DOMElement|DOMTextNode}
 */
function getSiblingNode(node) {
  while (node) {
    if (node.nextSibling) {
      return node.nextSibling;
    }
    node = node.parentNode;
  }
}

/**
 * Get object describing the nodes which contain characters at offset.
 *
 * @param {DOMElement|DOMTextNode} root
 * @param {number} offset
 * @return {?object}
 */
function getNodeForCharacterOffset(root, offset) {
  let node = getLeafNode(root);
  let nodeStart = 0;
  let nodeEnd = 0;

  while (node) {
    if (node.nodeType === TEXT_NODE) {
      nodeEnd = nodeStart + node.textContent.length;

      if (nodeStart <= offset && nodeEnd >= offset) {
        return {
          node: node,
          offset: offset - nodeStart,
        };
      }

      nodeStart = nodeEnd;
    }

    node = getLeafNode(getSiblingNode(node));
  }
}

export default getNodeForCharacterOffset;