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KevinH · 05-09-2025, 09:46 AM

Yes, that is expected behaviour as navigating is based in the nearest containing tag. For most text that will be the p tag that holds it.

Unfortunately when live editing html, Chrome can split text nodes and inject text nodes causing the dom to need to be re-normalized constantly. When you add to that whitespace can be compressed, offsets in text strings become an issue. So for consistency we take you to the closest destination we know will exist: the parent of the text.

This is how Preview navigates to where you click in CV, and visa versa.

05-09-2025, 09:46 AM	#28
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,264 Karma: 6565382 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Yes, that is expected behaviour as navigating is based in the nearest containing tag. For most text that will be the p tag that holds it. Unfortunately when live editing html, Chrome can split text nodes and inject text nodes causing the dom to need to be re-normalized constantly. When you add to that whitespace can be compressed, offsets in text strings become an issue. So for consistency we take you to the closest destination we know will exist: the parent of the text. This is how Preview navigates to where you click in CV, and visa versa. Last edited by KevinH; 05-09-2025 at 09:50 AM.