the easy way to do this is to have each word be a link -- you can style it so that it doesn't look like it -- and then have a custom WebViewClient handle the link and do whatever you want.
another way would be to have javascript pick up the touch and somehow determine which part of the DOM was in that position. offhand i don't know how viable this is. >I was wondering whether there was a way, if you have a webview with >some html being displayed in it, to obtain which part of the html is >touched by the user. For example, say I have a webview that's >displaying, in just plain text (no links), the following: > >The quick brown >fox jumped over >the lazy dogs. > >If the user touches the word "lazy", can I somehow obtain information >that he has touched that particular word? Perhaps there is something >in the WebView or WebViewClient classes that maps sections in the html >data to x, y coordinates? > >I'm not at all sure this is possible, but if anyone can point me in >the direction of any apps, code examples, or implementations that do >something like this, that would be awesome. Thanks! > >-Zack > -- jason.vp.engineering.particle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
