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Mastering JavaFX 10
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Mastering JavaFX 10

by Sergey Grinev
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
268 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Running JavaScript on a page

You can execute an arbitrary JavaScript by calling WebEngine.executeScript(). The return type is not defined; it depends on the type of JavaScript which has been executed, for example, String, Number, JSObject, and so on. You can find a full list in the JavaDoc.

JavaScript numbers from the same function can be matched to different Java objects on each call—either Double or Integer, depending on JavaScript values. To avoid instanceof checks, you can use java.lang.Number for all numerical values. See the following example.

In the next example, we will use JavaScript commands to dynamically show an overlay over a WebView that will show the bounds of the HTML element under the cursor and its tag name.

For the overlay, ...

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