RE: [Htmlparser-user] coordinates of text rendered on browser.

[Naveen K. <nav...@gm...>]

HTML parser will give you position if site is using absolute positioning and
proper coordinates have been set in the STYLE attribute. Otherwise, no HTML
parser can't give you the coordinates. 

 

Naveen

 

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From: htm...@li...
[mailto:htm...@li...] On Behalf Of Gurpreet
Sachdeva
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 5:51 AM
To: htm...@li...
Subject: [Htmlparser-user] coordinates of text rendered on browser.

 

Hi guys,

I have a basic query. Do HTML Parser gives me the coordinates of text as
rendered on the browser?

When I tried this:
java -jar lib/htmlparser.jar http://news.bbc.co.uk A

It gave something:

  LinkData
  --------
   0 Txt (55846[3258,81],55858[3258,93]): News sources
  *** END of LinkData ***
Link to : http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/; titled : About the BBC; begins at :
55875; ends at : 55934, AccessKey=null
  LinkData
  --------
   0 Txt (55934[3259,65],55947[3259,78]): About the BBC
  *** END of LinkData ***
Link to : http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/feedback/default.stm;
titled : Contact us; begins at : 55964; ends at : 56067, AccessKey=null
  LinkData
  --------
   0 Txt (56067[3260,109],56077[3260,119]): Contact us
  *** END of LinkData ***

In the End...
Does these numbers (56067[3260,109],56077[3260,119]) refer to the
coordinates? if not can I by some way get those coordinates that are
rendered in a standard browser (Mozilla/Firefox)

Thanks and Regards,
Gurpreet Singh