Abstract: A data displaying method and apparatus is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a touch action coordinate triggered in a displaying page by a user; intercepting a first region from the displaying page, wherein the center of the first region is the touch action coordinate and the size of the first region is a predefined value that is determined by the size of a magnifier to be drawn; magnifying the first region, and taking the magnified first region as a brush pattern, wherein the magnification of the first region is determined by the magnification of the magnifier; and calculating a second region for drawing the magnifier in the displaying page, and drawing and displaying the magnifier in the second region by using the brush pattern. By the method and apparatus, a magnifier function can be realized on a Symbian platform, and the user can accurately select wanted characters.