From 6657490351fe12f9f1991c6fdb8fa7bf3b0dfb3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miner <miner@example.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:02:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: merge consecutive text nodes during hydration for large
 text content

Fixes #17582

Browsers automatically split text nodes exceeding 65536 characters into
multiple consecutive text nodes during HTML parsing. This causes hydration
mismatches when Svelte expects a single text node.

The fix merges consecutive text nodes during hydration by:
- Detecting when the current node is a text node
- Finding all consecutive text node siblings
- Merging their content into the first text node
- Removing the extra text nodes

This restores correct hydration behavior for large text content.
---
 .../svelte/src/internal/client/dom/template.js   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/svelte/src/internal/client/dom/template.js b/packages/svelte/src/internal/client/dom/template.js
index 0d827218bc..64f8b6f817 100644
--- a/packages/svelte/src/internal/client/dom/template.js
+++ b/packages/svelte/src/internal/client/dom/template.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { hydrate_next, hydrate_node, hydrating, set_hydrate_node } from './hydra
 import {
 	create_text,
 	get_first_child,
+	get_next_sibling,
 	is_firefox,
 	create_element,
 	create_fragment,
@@ -310,6 +311,21 @@ export function text(value = '') {
 		// if an {expression} is empty during SSR, we need to insert an empty text node
 		node.before((node = create_text()));
 		set_hydrate_node(node);
+	} else {
+		// Browsers may split text nodes > 65536 characters into multiple consecutive text nodes
+		// during HTML parsing. We need to merge them into a single text node.
+		var next = get_next_sibling(node);
+		var merged_text = /** @type {Text} */ (node).textContent;
+		
+		while (next !== null && next.nodeType === TEXT_NODE) {
+			merged_text += /** @type {Text} */ (next).textContent;
+			var to_remove = next;
+			next = get_next_sibling(next);
+			to_remove.remove();
+		}
+		
+		// Update the text node with the merged content
+		/** @type {Text} */ (node).textContent = merged_text;
 	}
 
 	assign_nodes(node, node);