diff --git a/src/SerializedHighlight.ts b/src/SerializedHighlight.ts
index 63d12eb..fd6abed 100644
--- a/src/SerializedHighlight.ts
+++ b/src/SerializedHighlight.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-import {camelCase, snakeCase} from 'change-case';
-import {Highlight as ApiHighlight, NewHighlight as NewApiHighlight, styleIsColor } from './api';
-import Highlight, {IHighlightData} from './Highlight';
+import { camelCase, snakeCase } from 'change-case';
+import { Highlight as ApiHighlight, NewHighlight as NewApiHighlight, styleIsColor } from './api';
+import { getContentPath } from './contentPath';
+import Highlight, { IHighlightData } from './Highlight';
 import Highlighter from './Highlighter';
-import {getDeserializer, IDeserializer, ISerializationData} from './serializationStrategies';
-import {serialize as defaultSerializer} from './serializationStrategies/XpathRangeSelector';
+import { getDeserializer, IDeserializer, ISerializationData } from './serializationStrategies';
+import { serialize as defaultSerializer } from './serializationStrategies/XpathRangeSelector';
 
 const mapKeys = (transform: (key: string) => string, obj: {[key: string]: any}) => Object.keys(obj).reduce((result, key) => ({
   ...result, [transform(key)]: obj[key],
@@ -83,6 +84,10 @@ export default class SerializedHighlight {
     const prevHighlight = highlighter.getHighlightBefore(highlight);
     const nextHighlight = highlighter.getHighlightAfter(highlight);
 
+    let contentPath: number[] | undefined;
+
+    contentPath = getContentPath({ referenceElementId, ...serializationData }, highlighter);
+
     if (!style) {
       throw new Error('a style is requred to create an api payload');
     }
@@ -94,12 +99,12 @@ export default class SerializedHighlight {
       anchor: referenceElementId,
       annotation,
       color: style,
+      contentPath,
       highlightedContent: content,
       id,
       locationStrategies: [mapKeys(snakeCase, serializationData)],
       nextHighlightId: nextHighlight && nextHighlight.id,
       prevHighlightId: prevHighlight && prevHighlight.id,
-
     };
   }
 
diff --git a/src/contentPath.test.ts b/src/contentPath.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ffe724c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/contentPath.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+import { getContentPath } from './contentPath';
+import Highlighter from './Highlighter';
+import { adjacentTextSections } from './injectHighlightWrappers.spec.data';
+import { IData as TextPositionData } from './serializationStrategies/TextPositionSelector';
+import { IData as XpathRangeData } from './serializationStrategies/XpathRangeSelector';
+
+describe('getContentPath', () => {
+  describe('with XpathRangeSelector type', () => {
+    it('creates a path of indexes', () => {
+      document.body.innerHTML = `<div id="page">${adjacentTextSections}</div>`;
+
+      const container = document.getElementById('page')!;
+      const highlighter = new Highlighter(container, { formatMessage: jest.fn() });
+
+      const result = getContentPath(
+        {
+          referenceElementId: 'test-container',
+          // tslint:disable-next-line quotemark
+          startContainer: "./*[name()='section'][1]/*[name()='div'][1]/*[name()='p'][1]/text()[1]",
+          startOffset: 4,
+          type: 'XpathRangeSelector',
+        } as XpathRangeData,
+        highlighter
+      );
+
+      expect(result).toEqual([3, 1, 1, 0, 4]);
+    });
+
+    it('handles adjacent text highlights', () => {
+      document.body.innerHTML = `<div id="page">
+      <div id="test-container">
+      <p id="test-p">
+        <span data-highlighted>A shortcut called</span> FOIL is sometimes used to find the product of two binomials.
+        </p>
+      </div>
+    </div>`;
+
+      const container = document.getElementById('test-container')!;
+      const highlighter = new Highlighter(container, { formatMessage: jest.fn() });
+
+      const range: any = {
+        collapse: false,
+        commonAncestorContainer: container,
+        endContainer: './text()[1]',
+        endOffset: 31,
+        setEndAfter: jest.fn(),
+        setStartBefore: jest.fn(),
+        startContainer: './text()[1]',
+        startOffset: 27,
+      };
+
+      const result = getContentPath(
+        {
+          referenceElementId: 'test-p',
+          startContainer: range.startContainer,
+          startOffset: range.startOffset,
+          type: 'XpathRangeSelector',
+        } as XpathRangeData,
+        highlighter
+      );
+
+      expect(result).toEqual([0, 27]);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('with TextPositionSelector type', () => {
+    it('returns a simplified path and offset', () => {
+      document.body.innerHTML = `<div id="page">
+      <div id="test-container">
+        A shortcut called FOIL is sometimes used to find the product of two binomials.
+      </div>
+      </div>`;
+
+      const container = document.getElementById('page')!;
+      const highlighter = new Highlighter(container, { formatMessage: jest.fn() });
+
+      const result = getContentPath(
+        {
+          end: 11,
+          referenceElementId: 'test-container',
+          start: 3,
+          type: 'TextPositionSelector',
+        } as TextPositionData,
+        highlighter
+      );
+
+      expect(result).toEqual([0, 3]);
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/contentPath.ts b/src/contentPath.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7741bd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/contentPath.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import Highlighter from './Highlighter';
+import { IData as TextPositionData } from './serializationStrategies/TextPositionSelector';
+import { IData as XpathData } from './serializationStrategies/XpathRangeSelector';
+import { getFirstByXPath, isText, isTextHighlightOrScreenReaderNode } from './serializationStrategies/XpathRangeSelector/xpath';
+
+type IData = XpathData | TextPositionData;
+
+export function getContentPath(serializationData: IData, highlighter: Highlighter) {
+  if (serializationData.type === 'TextPositionSelector') {
+    return [0, serializationData.start];
+  }
+
+  const referenceElement = highlighter.getReferenceElement(serializationData.referenceElementId);
+  if (!referenceElement) { return; }
+
+  const element = getFirstByXPath(
+    serializationData.startContainer,
+    serializationData.startOffset,
+    referenceElement
+  );
+  if (!element[0]) { return; }
+
+  const nodePath = getNodePath(element[0], referenceElement);
+  nodePath.push(serializationData.startOffset);
+
+  return nodePath;
+}
+
+function getNodePath(element: HTMLElement, container: HTMLElement): number[] {
+  let currentNode: HTMLElement | null = element;
+  const nodePath: number[] = [];
+
+  // Go up the stack, capturing the index of each node to create a path
+  while (currentNode !== container) {
+    if (currentNode && currentNode.parentNode) {
+      let filteredNodes = Array.from(currentNode.parentNode.childNodes).filter((n) => !isTextHighlightOrScreenReaderNode(n));
+
+      filteredNodes = filteredNodes.filter((node, i) => {
+        if (node === currentNode) {
+          // Always include the node with the content to get the index
+          return true;
+        }
+
+        const nextNode = filteredNodes[i + 1];
+        const isCollapsible = (nextNode && isText(nextNode) && isText(node));
+
+        // Remove adjacent text nodes
+        return !isCollapsible;
+      });
+
+      const index = filteredNodes.indexOf(currentNode);
+      nodePath.unshift(index);
+      currentNode = currentNode.parentElement;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return nodePath.length > 0 ? nodePath : [0];
+}
diff --git a/src/serializationStrategies/XpathRangeSelector/xpath.ts b/src/serializationStrategies/XpathRangeSelector/xpath.ts
index ec794fb..5d8a50e 100644
--- a/src/serializationStrategies/XpathRangeSelector/xpath.ts
+++ b/src/serializationStrategies/XpathRangeSelector/xpath.ts
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ const findNonTextChild = (node: Node) => Array.prototype.find.call(node.childNod
 const isHighlight = (node: Nullable<Node>): node is HTMLElement => !!node && (node as Element).getAttribute && (node as Element).getAttribute(DATA_ATTR) !== null;
 const isHighlightOrScreenReaderNode = (node: Nullable<Node>) => isHighlight(node) || isScreenReaderNode(node);
 const isTextHighlight = (node: Nullable<Node>): node is HTMLElement => isHighlight(node) && !findNonTextChild(node);
-const isTextHighlightOrScreenReaderNode = (node: Nullable<Node>): node is HTMLElement => (isHighlight(node) || isScreenReaderNode(node)) && !findNonTextChild(node);
-const isText = (node: Nullable<Node>): node is Text => !!node && node.nodeType === 3;
-const isTextOrTextHighlight  = (node: Nullable<Node>): node is Text | HTMLElement => isText(node) || isTextHighlight(node);
+export const isTextHighlightOrScreenReaderNode = (node: Nullable<Node>): node is HTMLElement => (isHighlight(node) || isScreenReaderNode(node)) && !findNonTextChild(node);
+export const isText = (node: Nullable<Node>): node is Text => !!node && node.nodeType === 3;
+const isTextOrTextHighlight = (node: Nullable<Node>): node is Text | HTMLElement => isText(node) || isTextHighlight(node);
 const isTextOrTextHighlightOrScreenReaderNode = (node: Nullable<Node | HTMLElement>) => isText(node) || isTextHighlightOrScreenReaderNode(node) || isScreenReaderNode(node);
 const isElement = (node: Node): node is HTMLElement => node && node.nodeType === 1;
 const isElementNotHighlight = (node: Node) => isElement(node) && !isHighlight(node);
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ const floatThroughText = (element: Node, offset: number, container: Node): [Node
   }
 };
 
-const resolveToNextElementOffsetIfPossible = (element: Node, offset: number) => {
+const resolveToNextElementOffsetIfPossible = (element: Node, offset: number): [Node, number] => {
   if (isTextOrTextHighlightOrScreenReaderNode(element) && element.parentNode && offset === getMaxOffset(element) && (!element.nextSibling || !isHighlightOrScreenReaderNode(element.nextSibling))) {
     return [element.parentNode, nodeIndex(element.parentNode.childNodes, element) + 1];
   }
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ const resolveToNextElementOffsetIfPossible = (element: Node, offset: number) =>
   return [element, offset];
 };
 
-const resolveToPreviousElementOffsetIfPossible = (element: Node, offset: number) => {
+const resolveToPreviousElementOffsetIfPossible = (element: Node, offset: number): [Node, number] => {
 
   if (isTextOrTextHighlightOrScreenReaderNode(element) && element.parentNode && offset === 0 && (!element.previousSibling || !isHighlightOrScreenReaderNode(element.previousSibling))) {
     return [element.parentNode, nodeIndex(element.parentNode.childNodes, element)];
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ function followPart(node: Node, part: string) {
   const findFirst = (nodeList: NodeList, predicate: (node: Node) => boolean) =>
     Array.prototype.find.call(nodeList, (node: Node) => predicate(node));
   const findFirstAfter = (nodeList: NodeList, afterThis: Node, predicate: (node: Node) => boolean) => findFirst(
-    Array.prototype.slice.call(nodeList, Array.prototype.indexOf.call(nodeList, afterThis) + 1),
+    Array.prototype.slice.call(nodeList, Array.prototype.indexOf.call(nodeList, afterThis) + 1) as unknown as NodeList,
     predicate
   );
 
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index f9835e5..996f33f 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -5201,9 +5201,9 @@ typescript@^2.4.1:
   integrity sha512-Gr4p6nFNaoufRIY4NMdpQRNmgxVIGMs4Fcu/ujdYk3nAZqk7supzBE9idmvfZIlH/Cuj//dvi+019qEue9lV0w==
 
 typescript@^3.1.1:
-  version "3.1.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/typescript/-/typescript-3.1.1.tgz#3362ba9dd1e482ebb2355b02dfe8bcd19a2c7c96"
-  integrity sha512-Veu0w4dTc/9wlWNf2jeRInNodKlcdLgemvPsrNpfu5Pq39sgfFjvIIgTsvUHCoLBnMhPoUA+tFxsXjU6VexVRQ==
+  version "3.9.10"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/typescript/-/typescript-3.9.10.tgz#70f3910ac7a51ed6bef79da7800690b19bf778b8"
+  integrity sha512-w6fIxVE/H1PkLKcCPsFqKE7Kv7QUwhU8qQY2MueZXWx5cPZdwFupLgKK3vntcK98BtNHZtAF4LA/yl2a7k8R6Q==
 
 uglify-js@^3.1.4:
   version "3.13.5"