Text Model

Transform functionality to move between HTML Elements and a text model.

Hello <a href="place" alt="hey">there</a> <u>person</u>!

becomes

{
  "text": "Hello there person!",
  "blocks": {
    "link": [ { "start": 6, "end": 11, "href": "place", "alt": "hey" } ],
    "emphasis": [ 12, 18 ]
  }
}

Usage

npm install --save text-model

Convert from an Element to a text model representation.

var el = document.querySelector('.some-element');
var model = textModel.fromElement(el);

Convert from a text model representation to an Element.

var el = textModel.toElement(model);
paragraphEl.appendChild(el);

Merge text together -- simple styling tags (like <i>, <b>, <em>) will be merged correctly as well.

var a = textModel.fromElement(document.querySelector('.a'));
var b = textModel.fromElement(document.querySelector('.b'));
var merged = textModel.concat(a, b);
paragraphEl.appendChild(textModel.toElement(merged));

Split text apart -- tags will be split correctly as well.

var model = textModel.fromElement(document.querySelector('.a'));
var splitModels = textModel.split(a, 15);
paragraphEl.appendChild(textModel.toElement(splitModels[0]));
paragraphEl.appendChild(textModel.toElement(splitModels[1]));

Optional Configuration

textModel.updateSameAs({
  'B': 'STRONG',
  'U': 'EM',
  'I': 'EM',
  'H1': 'H2',
  'H3': 'H2',
  'H4': 'H2',
  'H5': 'H2',
  'H6': 'H2',
  'STRIKE': 'DEL'
});

These tags will be converted if they are seen. The defaults are as above, but you can pass in an object of tag names (uppercase) that will merge and overwrite them. To remove a default conversion, simply pass <tagname>: null in the object:

textModel.updateSameAs({
  'B': null, // override default, don't convert <b> to <strong>
  'H1': 'STRONG', // convert ALL headers to <strong>
  'H2': 'STRONG',
  'H3': 'STRONG',
  'H4': 'STRONG',
  'H5': 'STRONG',
  'H6': 'STRONG',
  'SPAN': 'EM', // convert all spans to <em>
  'STRIKE': null // don't convert <strike>. this will remove the tag as <strike> is deprecated in html (and thus removed by text-model)
});

Testing

We use karma and mocha for testing.

npm test

Contribution

Fork the project and submit a PR on a branch that is not named master. We use linting tools and unit tests, which are built constantly using continuous integration. If you find a bug, it would be appreciated if you could also submit a branch with a failing unit test to show your case.