Word on HTML document point, using UIWebView, DOM and Javascript

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Published on 2010-05-04T02:32:08Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 10:58 UTC
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Hey guys,

How can I figure out which word is at the point where the user tapped on a UIWebView?

I am able to detect the CGPoint for the tap (subclassing UIWindow like this), and I can actually get the DOM element on that point using javascript.

But I know very little of javascript and DOM to figure out how can I actually get which word the user tapped on.

Is that possible? Here's what I have right now:

int scrollPosition = [[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"window.pageYOffset"] intValue];
NSString *js = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"document.elementFromPoint(%f, %f).tagName", point.x, point.y+scrollPosition];
NSString *value = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:js];

NSLog(@"element: %@", value);

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