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Asked: 2026-05-23T11:03:15+00:00

Example: <span style=padding-right:10px;>left text</span><span>right</span> In the above the distance between left text and right

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Example: <span style="padding-right:10px;">left text</span><span>right</span>

In the above the distance between “left text” and “right” would be 10px after they have been rendered by a browser.

So my application, would take in an html file and 2 variables(strings that exist in the html file) and then find the horizontal distance(in pixels?) between the 2 strings.

Possible at all?
I am guessing I will have to modify an open source engine like webkit to achieve this. right? Or is there a simpler way? Parse page for CSS rules…would that work?

If its webkit, then how hard would it be ? which languages would I need to master ? I only know php (bit of C , C# , java)

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use Javascript.

    That way you can find properties of elements and then compare them to get their distance.

    For example, you can use javascript to get element.left, element.width, and element2.left. Then, you can find the distance by taking element2.left – (element.left+element.width).

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