Annotator Documentation

Warning

Beware: rapidly changing documentation!

This is the bleeding-edge documentation for Annotator that will be changing rapidly as we home in on Annotator v2.0. Information here may be inaccurate, prone to change, and otherwise unreliable. You may well want to consult the stable documentation instead.

Welcome to the documentation for Annotator, an open-source JavaScript library for building annotation systems on the web. At its simplest, Annotator enables textual annotations of any web page. You can deploy it using just a few lines of code.

Annotator is also a library of composable tools for capturing and manipulating DOM selections; storing, persisting and retrieving annotations; and creating user interfaces for annotation. You may use few or many of these components together to build your own custom annotation-based application.

Continue reading to learn about installing and deploying Annotator:

Glossary and Index