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is it possible to count the number of lines in the div element?

 
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I have a div element and its innerHTML is some number of lines, loaded at runtime from the file.
i need to count the number of lines of that div element. i didn't get any idea about that!
idea please!

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It is not easy, since I doubt you are asking about counting breaks.

If the text is all the same size, you can probably look at line-height and text-size. With that you might be able to guess.

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That's a really odd thing to do. Why do you need to do this?
 
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i have to modify the particular line dynamically. thats why i need to count the lines in a div element.

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Perhaps if you supply a little more detail, we can help. Identifying a passage by "line" is really difficult and probably non-deterministic.

Perhaps the passage that needs to be modified can be identified as a <span> or other element that'll make this a whole lot easier and less error-prone.
 
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