> The browser doesn't keep the original, downloaded text anywhere. The HTTP cache may have the data, but it isn't guaranteed to be there. That's why I said that requesting the URL for the document may result in hitting the server again.
-Darin On 2/21/06, Darin Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you need exactly, but there is the DOM3 Node.textContent > API. > > Load a web page, and then type this in the browser URL bar: > javascript:alert(document.documentElement.textContent) > > If you want the HTML text, then you will need to simply load the > document URL again. That could result in hitting the web server. The > browser doesn't keep the original, downloaded text anywhere. > > -Darin > > > On 2/21/06, Srinivasa Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Is it possible to get the text content of a web page displayed in the > > browser. > > > > Please let me know which API i should use to retrieve the text content. > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Raghavan > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-tech-xpcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom > > > _______________________________________________ dev-tech-xpcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom
