I'm displaying some local web content and would like to get the word under the tap point. The single tap delegate is setup and I can get it to work great if I use a UITextView and load the HTML with a NSAttributedString and NSHTMLTextDocumentType, but I lose formatting such as paragraph spacing and small caps; adding a NSMutableParagraphStyle is without effect.
Using a UIWebView and loadHTMLString that includes JQuery, is there a way? There are several pages which show how to use JS to get the word under the cursor, such as the following:
How to get a word under cursor using JavaScript?
How to get word under cursor?
Get word under mouse pointer
Is it possible to get the word under the mouse cursor in a `<textarea>`? How to get word under cursor?
But after several days, I've been unable to get it to work. My code:
var jsFile = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("webview", ofType: "js");
let jsData = NSString(contentsOfFile:jsFile!, encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding, error:nil) as! String
let returned = webView.stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString(jsData)! as String
println("Returned \(returned).")
The word could be unicode with a different code range, but getting any word to work first would be wonderful.
