chop-wrap

A small browser module to recursively chop and wrap text nodes

• Vanilla JS
• IE>8

By default, it can recursively chop words or letters and wrap them in a custom tag.

Can be useful to animate text, transform DOM text nodes into something else or whatever.

It can turn this html

<div>
    <blockquote cite="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFku"
        <p>Sur une branche morte</p>
        <p>Les corbeaux se sont perchés</p>
        <p>Soir d'automne</p>
        <p><a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFku">Bashō – XVIIe siècle</a></p>
    </blockquote>
</div>

in

    <div class="wrapped">

        <blockquote cite="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFku"><span class="wrap"></span>

            <p>
                <span class="wrap wrap--selected">Sur</span><span class="wrap"> </span><span
                class="wrap wrap--selected">une</span><span
                class="wrap"> </span><span class="wrap wrap--selected">branche</span><span class="wrap"> </span><span
                class="wrap wrap--selected">morte</span>
            </p>

            <p>
                <span class="wrap wrap--selected">Les</span><span class="wrap"> </span><span
                class="wrap wrap--selected">corbeaux</span><span
                class="wrap"> </span><span class="wrap wrap--selected">se</span><span class="wrap"> </span><span
                class="wrap wrap--selected">sont</span><span class="wrap"> </span><span class="wrap wrap--selected">perchés</span>
            </p>

            <p>
                <span class="wrap wrap--selected">Soir</span><span class="wrap"> </span><span
                class="wrap wrap--selected">d'automne</span>
            </p>

            <p>
                <a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFku">
                    <span class="wrap wrap--selected">Bashō</span><span class="wrap"> </span><span
                    class="wrap wrap--selected">–</span><span class="wrap"> </span>
                    <span class="wrap wrap--selected">XVIIe</span><span class="wrap"> </span><span
                    class="wrap wrap--selected">siècle</span>
                </a>
            </p>

        </blockquote>

    </div>

Principle :

• a function to transform the content of a text node into an array of tokens
• a function to wrap an array of token into tags, returning an HTML fragment
• a function to recursively walk down the DOM and applying the two composited functions above

The two first functions (the chopper and the wrapper) can be redefined by your own ones.

Usage

var textSlicer = require('chop-wrap');

var node = document.getElementById('wrap_words');

textSlicer.chopWrap([node]);

It can take an optional option object.

var textSlicer = require('chop-wrap');

var node = document.getElementById('wrap_words');

textSlicer.chopWrap([node],
                    {
                        flagContainerClass: 'wrapped',
                        wrapperTag: 'span',
                        wrapperClass: 'wrap',
                        selectionRegex: '\\S+',
                        selectedClass: 'wrap--selected',
                        wrapperFun: textSlicer.wrap,
                        chopperFun: textSlicer.chopWords
                    });

Currently you have 2 chopper functions available : chopWords and chopChars.

Make a Pull request to add your own !

Build

Run npm run dev to launch the dev server