color change onkeydown or blur

[codeone]

hey,
Im still working on this one, I am trying to make the text in the textarea change color according to a pre-assigned word...

I still assume that arrays are the way...

and I suppose the css would be the answer to changing the color..

but, I have no idea how to setup the array to search for the keyinput and then change it to the specified color..

all help is appreciated,

code one

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You'd need to parse your textarea value with each keystroke.

You should be able to assign an onKeyPress event (or maybe onKeyDown) to the textarea, which could call a javascript function, and scan the text for specific values every time a key is pressed.

I'm not sure if you can change the colour of specific text only within a textarea, however... As far as I know, you can only change the colour of all of the text.

Hope this helps!

Dan

 

[codeone]

I think your right, unless there is a way to do it in the array...

something like:

var clr = new Array(3)
clr[0]="Javascript" if (document.styleSheets) style.this.color='red';
clr[1]="Html" if (document.styleSheets) style.this.color='red';
clr[2]="Table" if (document.styleSheets) style.this.color='red';

you know something like that..can some one please show me how to setup the array to allow for css code to change the specified words color..

thanks

co