GetTextSize

 

Description

 

Retrieve the size of “pure” text available in the page. Pure text has had all HTML tags removed. All whitespace runs (including newlines) have been collapsed to single spaces except for whitespace in PRE sections..

 

Arguments

 

Name

Type

I/O

Description

URL

String

In

The page of interest (blank for the current page).

 

Return Value

 

Long Integer: the number of bytes of available text.

 

Remarks

 

The pure text can be retrieved via the GetText method.

 

The size of pure text in PRE sections and plain text from non-HTML pages is identical to the size of the raw text (as retrieved by GetContentSizeRead).