@aglyn/shared-util-dom

DOM measurement helpers and type guards: bounding and clipping rects, scroll parents, offset parents, the owning window of a node (including across iframes), and event coordinates. It is mainly an internal building block of the Besigner visual editor (@aglyn/besigner-ui) and of @aglyn/shared-ui-next, and is usable on its own.

Published to npm from the Aglyn monorepo. Versions follow semantic versioning.

Install

npm install @aglyn/shared-util-dom

No peer dependencies. mobx and rxjs are regular dependencies, used only by the page-title controller.

What's in it

Everything below is exported from the package root.

• Rect and geometry: getElementClientRectBounding, getElementClientRectBoundingInner, getElementRectAsClientRect, getElementClippingRect, getElementViewportRect, getElementDocumentElementRect, getElementFragmentRects, getElementWindowScrollBarX.
• Tree walking: getElementScrollParent, getElementListScrollParents, getElementOffsetParent, getElementParentNode, getElementDocumentElement, getElementNodeName, getElementComputedStyle.
• Windows and frames: getNodeWindow, getNodeWindowScroll, getIframeDocument. These resolve the window that owns a node rather than assuming the global one, so they work on elements inside an iframe.
• Events: getEventCoordinates, eventHasViewportCoordinates, isTouchEvent, isKeyboardEvent.
• Guards: isNodeObject, isNodeElement, isElementHTMLElement, isSVGElement, isNodeShadowRoot, isNodeTableElement, isNodeDocument, isElementWindow, isElementScrollParentElement, elementContainsChildElement.
• Types and constants: Rect, ClientRectObject, Coordinates, VirtualElement, Boundary, RootBoundary, and the clippingParents / viewport constants.
• A page-title controller: PageTitle (a MobX observable class), the shared instance $title, the RxJS observable $pageTitle, and the setters setScreenName, setScreenNumber, setScreenSuffix, setScreenSeparator, setScreenTitle.

Each file under src/lib is also importable by subpath, for example @aglyn/shared-util-dom/get-element-scroll-parent or @aglyn/shared-util-dom/guards/is-touch-event. getOwnerDocument is available only that way, as @aglyn/shared-util-dom/get-owner-document.

Usage

import {
  getElementListScrollParents,
  getEventCoordinates,
  getNodeWindow,
} from '@aglyn/shared-util-dom'

function onPointerDown(event: PointerEvent) {
  const { x, y } = getEventCoordinates(event)
  const win = getNodeWindow(event.target)
  const scrollers = getElementListScrollParents(event.target as Element)
  // ...
}

Import-time effect

This package imports the root of @aglyn/shared-util-tools, and that root defines a set of non-enumerable $_-prefixed methods on Array.prototype when it loads. See that package's README for the exact list.

How it fits

A shared package: generic, with no knowledge of Aglyn's model. Shared packages may only import other shared packages; this one depends on @aglyn/shared-util-tools. @aglyn/besigner-ui and @aglyn/shared-ui-next depend on it.

License

Apache-2.0. Source: https://github.com/aglyn/aglyn/tree/main/libs/shared/util/dom