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		gethly 9 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (2024) FYI, IDEs and editors too don't use "textarea". Contenteditable essentially makes the web browser work like editor does.

mg 9 hours ago [–]

Contenteditable plus the CSS Custom Highlight API (which highlights ranges instead of elements) might indeed allow for a good solution. But I have not yet seen an editor that does that.

hyperhello 7 hours ago | [–]

I built a prototype that does work. https://hypervariety.com/ScriptHighlighter/

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