[android-developers] WebView : can we select text in Java ?

Hi, I'd like to use WebView to display some content (from my Java code or local temp file). I need to select some characters (change background color) of the view. Of course I need to change those selected char. using my Java code. How can it be done ? Can you post a short example ? Thanks

[android-developers] WebView : can we select text in Java ?

Hi, I like WebView component. I would like to be able to select text in the view in my Java code. Is it possible ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group,

[android-developers] WebView : can we select text in Java ?

the regular WebKit has a method to run arbitrary javascript and return any results. if you gave the text a DOM ID then you could select it via this method. unfortunately it looks like the Android interface to WebKit doesn't include this facility. make it a DOM node than its possible as most

[android-developers] WebView : can we select text in Java ?

You can use loadUrl() with javascript: URLs. ah yes good point, j'ai l'oublier. can't get results that way, but i suppose something called via addJavascriptInterface() could report results. However, I don't know where you'd get the DOM ID, unless it was via a call from Javascript into Java