Find coordinates of text on a page - c++, windows, VS2013

Question

Is there any way to retrieve the coordinates of input text on the screen (not on the API itself) ?

Example in pseudo code:

user types: "example"

example found at [400,355] //on my screen

I have no problem checking if the input is on the screen but I have no idea how to capture the coordinates without OCR which I don't want to have to do.

My question is about webpages in particular but I would also be interested in how to do it in general (notepad text, messenger text...).

Ideas appreciated Thanks!!!

Answer 1

jQuery has an .position() function; however, note that the position is relative to the object's parent, and is not the absolute screen position. Though, with a bit of math you can find it.

https://api.jquery.com/position/

Answer 2

in C++ : Hope this could work, use this in your handler for WM_LBUTTONDOWN :

xPos = GET_X_LPARAM(lParam); 
yPos = GET_Y_LPARAM(lParam);

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As said by @user2759788 jQuery/javascript both can be used for finding coordinates on a webpage.