Selection: anchorOffset property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

The Selection.anchorOffset read-only property returns the number of characters that the selection's anchor is offset within the Selection.anchorNode.

This number is zero-based. If the selection begins with the first character in the Selection.anchorNode, 0 is returned.

Value

A number.

Specifications

Specification
Selection API
# dom-selection-anchoroffset

Browser compatibility

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See also