[annotator-dev] Overlapping highlights

Fri Sep 12 23:28:51 UTC 2014

Nevermind. I figured it out. I just needed to iterate over the 
highlights attribute of the annotation object.

Mike

On 9/12/14, 3:47 PM, Michael Widner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First: thanks for all the work you've put in on Annotator. It's great 
> stuff.
>
> Second: I've noticed that when two highlights overlap a section of 
> text, Annotator creates three new spans. I understand that this is a 
> limitation of HTML and so can't be changed
>
> Is there some easy utility function in Annotator that I can call in a 
> plugin that will allow me to select all relevant spans for a specific 
> annotation?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. I'm wearing my iAnnotator t-shirt today, by chance.
>

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