[mmastrac]

I have a reasonably good solution for this project of mine you might find useful:

https://grack.com/demos/adventure/

The trick for me was just using a hidden input and updating the state of an in game input box. The code is ancient by today's standards but uses a reasonably simple technique to get the selection bounds of the text.

It works with auto complete on phones and has been stable for a decade.

[adelineJoOs]

hidden input box is something I heard before from some hacker-ish old collegues - seems to be a powerful and reliable approach to store state & enable communication between components!

[mmastrac]

Oops, I worded my comment poorly -- it's not a hidden input, but rather a "CSS-visibility-hidden textbox input". Hidden inputs are useful but something completely different.

[adelineJoOs]

Gotcha, thank you for the clarification!

[stavros]

That's promising, thank you! I'll ask the LLM to implement it.