On Jul 14, 8:26 am, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13/7/09 9:10 PM, Wen Shane wrote:
>
> > I am a rookie to Gecko.  I want to use Gecko to get all anchors'
> > position information in a rendered html page. What should I do? Do I
> > need to read all the code under the layout directory?
>
> >   I guess before rendering, Gecko must have calculated the position of
> > all visible nodes in the HTML page. But the problem is I dont know
> > where in the souce code Gecko calculates the nodes' visual position,
> > and I have not found any API docs on how to do this either.
>
> > I am looking forward to your help.
>
> You can do this using JS, with getElementsByTagName('a') and getClientRects.
>
> Rob

Thanks, Rob
Can I do it using C++, or python, cos I just want to use the position
information of anchors  as input to another program which will make
some decisions on the importance of the anchors in the web page.
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