Issue when DOM gets modified / restored

[recogito]

Issue when DOM gets modified / restored

[srinisubramanian]

My Bad: This is NOT an issue with recogito-js.

What I realized is that due to the DOM modification and restoration, the text coordinates have changed (addition of spaces and new line characters). Unfortunately I do not have control over this. Is it possible to determine annotations without using
the TextPositionSelector with offset/length?

[rsimon]

Hi @srinisubramanian,

hm, yes. Dynamic changes to the DOM is something that RecogitoJS may not be very good at. Do you mean the same text might differ on re-render? I don't think there's a way to handle this. At least RecogitoJS will always base the selection on the text offset.

Perhaps there's a way to keep the situation more stable between re-renders by using pre-formatted text? (Either by packing it into a <pre> tag, or by applying a white-space: pre; style. In this case, trying the two different mode settings that RecogitoJS provides might help:

https://github.com/recogito/recogito-js/wiki/API-Reference#initializing-recogitojs

[srinisubramanian]

Hi @rsimon will try the pre mode and let you know

[srinisubramanian]

pre is not an option as formatting is messed up.

Will have to try a different solution so the text does not change.