Highlight functions

[kehers]

is there any way i can get values highlighted in a form element say a textare box?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

What do you mean by highlighed? You can change the text and background colours of text or textarea elements... But if you're talking about changing only a portion of the contents, then you would be gettng into something a lot different.

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[kehers]

What i mean is getting the values say group of text highlighted in say a textare box in a form. for example i once saw on a site a button which on clicks highligh the whole content of a textarea box

 

[tsdragon]

You're still talking about two different things:

getting the values say group of text highlighted in say a textare box

sounds like you want to highlight only a part of the text in a textarea, but

highligh the whole content of a textarea box

says that you want to highlight all of the text in the textarea.

The two require entirely different methods. In fact, you can't do the first with just a textarea.

Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[Fendal]

You probably saw something like This..

<form name="SA">
<textarea name="textA" rows="5" cols="20">
Text To HighLight 
</textarea>
<BR>
<input type="button" value="HighLight" onClick="javascript:this.form.textA.focus();this.form.textA.select();">
</form>