diff --git a/src/trackChangesModel.ts b/src/trackChangesModel.ts
index 13989d9..bb44737 100644
--- a/src/trackChangesModel.ts
+++ b/src/trackChangesModel.ts
@@ -247,7 +247,17 @@ function chip(message: string): string {
   return `<div class="cw-error">Could not render this block: ${md.utils.escapeHtml(message)}</div>`;
 }
 
-function renderOp(op: BlockOp, render: (src: string) => string): string {
+/**
+ * F11 (INV-36): the source-range attributes a live block's wrapping element
+ * carries, so a preview selection can map back to a source markdown range. `""`
+ * when the block has no live source (a baseline-only deletion / a proposal
+ * block) — those are skipped by the selection mapper. Pure + deterministic.
+ */
+function srcAttr(blk: { start: number; end: number } | undefined): string {
+  return blk ? ` data-src-start="${blk.start}" data-src-end="${blk.end}"` : "";
+}
+
+function renderOp(op: BlockOp, render: (src: string) => string, src = ""): string {
   const safe = (src: string): string => {
     try {
       return render(src);
@@ -293,7 +303,7 @@ function renderOp(op: BlockOp, render: (src: string) => string): string {
       }
       break;
   }
-  return `<div class="cw-blk ${cls}">${badge}${inner}</div>`;
+  return `<div class="cw-blk ${cls}"${src}>${badge}${inner}</div>`;
 }
 
 export type AuthorKind = "claude" | "human";
@@ -367,14 +377,25 @@ export function colorByAuthor(
   return sentinelsToSpans(render(injected));
 }
 
-/** Off-state body: the current buffer as plain markdown, no annotations (INV-33). */
+/**
+ * Off-state body: the current buffer as plain markdown, no annotations (INV-33).
+ * Each block is wrapped in a bare `<div data-src-start/end>` so the off-mode
+ * preview is still a selection→source mapping surface (INV-36) while staying
+ * visually clean — no `cw-` annotation classes. A doc with no blocks (empty /
+ * whitespace-only) renders whole. Pure + deterministic.
+ */
 export function renderPlain(currentText: string, opts: RenderOptions = {}): string {
   const render = opts.render ?? defaultRender;
-  try {
-    return render(currentText);
-  } catch (err) {
-    return chip(err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err));
-  }
+  const safe = (src: string): string => {
+    try {
+      return render(src);
+    } catch (err) {
+      return chip(err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err));
+    }
+  };
+  const blocks = splitBlocksWithRanges(currentText);
+  if (blocks.length === 0) return safe(currentText);
+  return blocks.map((b) => `<div${srcAttr(b)}>${safe(b.raw)}</div>`).join("\n");
 }
 
 export interface ProposalView {
@@ -411,11 +432,13 @@ function renderReviewOp(
   op: BlockOp,
   render: (src: string) => string,
   colored: (raw: string) => string,
+  src: string,
 ): string {
   // removed blocks and any changed block (atomic fences diffed whole; non-atomic prose
   // word-merged) render via renderOp — no author sentinels (deletions neutral, spec §6.7).
-  if (op.kind === "removed" || op.kind === "changed") return renderOp(op, render);
-  return `<div class="cw-blk ${op.kind === "added" ? "cw-added" : "cw-unchanged"}">${colored(op.block.raw)}</div>`;
+  // `src` is "" for a removed block (no live source — INV-36).
+  if (op.kind === "removed" || op.kind === "changed") return renderOp(op, render, src);
+  return `<div class="cw-blk ${op.kind === "added" ? "cw-added" : "cw-unchanged"}"${src}>${colored(op.block.raw)}</div>`;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -471,7 +494,7 @@ export function renderReview(
     const blk = op.kind === "removed" ? undefined : ranges[ci++];
     const colored = (raw: string): string =>
       blk ? colorByAuthor(raw, blk.start, authorSpans, render) : render(raw);
-    bodyParts.push(renderReviewOp(op, render, colored));
+    bodyParts.push(renderReviewOp(op, render, colored, srcAttr(blk)));
     const here = blockIndex >= 0 ? byBlock.get(blockIndex) : undefined;
     if (here) for (const p of here) bodyParts.push(proposalBlockHtml(p, render));
   }
diff --git a/test/trackChangesModel.test.ts b/test/trackChangesModel.test.ts
index 72c06e7..e995f56 100644
--- a/test/trackChangesModel.test.ts
+++ b/test/trackChangesModel.test.ts
@@ -319,3 +319,51 @@ describe("renderTrackChanges — intra-diagram mermaid (#22)", () => {
     expect(html).not.toContain("classDef cwAdded");
   });
 });
+
+// F11 SLICE-2 (INV-36): the pure render layer emits data-src-start/data-src-end
+// (source char offsets from BlockWithRange) on every LIVE-source rendered block,
+// in BOTH modes. The webview's selection→source mapping walks the DOM to the
+// nearest data-src ancestor; these offsets are the contract.
+describe("F11 data-src emission (INV-36)", () => {
+  /** Pull every data-src-start/end pair from an HTML string, in document order. */
+  const srcRanges = (html: string): Array<{ start: number; end: number }> =>
+    Array.from(html.matchAll(/data-src-start="(\d+)" data-src-end="(\d+)"/g)).map((m) => ({
+      start: Number(m[1]),
+      end: Number(m[2]),
+    }));
+
+  test("renderPlain wraps every block with data-src offsets equal to splitBlocksWithRanges (and stays clean)", () => {
+    const doc = "# Title\n\nFirst para.\n\nSecond para.\n";
+    const blocks = splitBlocksWithRanges(doc);
+    const html = renderPlain(doc);
+    expect(srcRanges(html)).toEqual(blocks.map((b) => ({ start: b.start, end: b.end })));
+    // off-mode stays the clean preview: no annotation marks.
+    expect(html).not.toContain("cw-");
+    // each range slices back to its block's raw source.
+    for (const b of blocks) expect(doc.slice(b.start, b.end)).toBe(b.raw);
+  });
+
+  test("renderReview emits data-src on each live block; removed + proposal blocks carry none (INV-36)", () => {
+    // baseline has an extra paragraph that is REMOVED in current; current adds one.
+    const baseline = "Keep this.\n\nDrop this.\n";
+    const current = "Keep this.\n\nBrand new.\n";
+    const proposals: ProposalView[] = [{ id: "p1", anchorStart: 0, anchorEnd: 4, replaced: "Keep", replacement: "Hold" }];
+    const html = renderReview(baseline, current, [], proposals);
+    const liveBlocks = splitBlocksWithRanges(current);
+    // exactly one data-src per LIVE (current-side) block — removed/proposal blocks excluded.
+    expect(srcRanges(html)).toEqual(liveBlocks.map((b) => ({ start: b.start, end: b.end })));
+    // the proposal block itself is not a live-source block.
+    const propIdx = html.indexOf('data-proposal-id="p1"');
+    const propTag = html.slice(html.lastIndexOf("<div", propIdx), propIdx + 1);
+    expect(propTag).not.toContain("data-src-start");
+  });
+
+  test("data-src emission is deterministic — same inputs → identical HTML (extends INV-22)", () => {
+    const a = renderPlain("alpha\n\nbeta\n");
+    const b = renderPlain("alpha\n\nbeta\n");
+    expect(a).toBe(b);
+    const r1 = renderReview("x", "x\n\ny", [], []);
+    const r2 = renderReview("x", "x\n\ny", [], []);
+    expect(r1).toBe(r2);
+  });
+});