Page is hanging when I try to highlight text

[techiexplorer]

This issue is:

• Bug report
• Feature request
• Improvement

Actual behaviour

Page is hanging when I try to highlight text

Expected behaviour

Text should be highlighted

Steps to reproduce

new TextHighlighter(elem, {
color: "red"
});

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Configuration

PopOS (Linux), Latest chrome browser - Version 88.0.4324.150 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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[lastlink]

@techie-explorer there is not enough information to help with this? what's the html code? more information on the javascript being used.

[jeffreybiles]

I encountered really bad hanging issues in iOS (from several minutes all the way to full app crash).

Mine would always freeze when an image was included in the highlight.

I mostly fixed it by changing the keepRange boolean in doHighlight to false. Now it only occasionally freezes when highlights include an image.

I don't understand the mechanism for why this happens, but hopefully it can shed light on any other issues people might be having.

[lastlink]

mobile highlighting doesn't work well in browser. it's better on native apps. However, this plugin does work for mobile in a limited extend. You have to use on touch rather than keydown.