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Asked: 2026-05-30T19:45:28+00:00

Can I get the offset of a selected html element in the html source

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Can I get the offset of a selected html element in the html source code?

for example:

<html>
<body>
<a href="http://google.com">google</a>
</body>
<html>

if the user would select the google text, I would want to get 40 as this is the offset from the start of the source.

I tried with Range object but couldn’t find something helpful with this one.

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  1. Editorial Team
    <html>
<head>
<script>
function srcOffset(ele)
{
   alert(document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML.indexOf(ele.id) + ele.id.length + 2);
   return false;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.google.com/" onclick="return srcOffset(this)" id="myLink">Google</a>
</body>
</html>
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