Thanks very much for your reply! I think I will do something like having each word be a link, it seems the most plausible idea.
On Oct 2, 3:36 pm, Jason Proctor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
