Highlighting text in Textbox

790213 · Dec 2, 2003

Do you know how I can select only a part of the text in a textbox? Eg. If the textbox has the word - Hello World then I want to select Hello or World or just the W.

stormbind · Dec 3, 2003

I do not know the answer but maybe this will be of use? It works for words within the body element only... so you might want to use it with an <iframe>

var a = document.body.createTextRange();
var b = a.findText('hello world');

Lrnmore · Dec 3, 2003

790213,

stombind, you were right on target..
using your keywords found this:

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/6504

Code:

My testing shows this does not work in NN7
But it does work in IE6

Code:

<html><head><title>TEST</title>
<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
function txtsel(str){
obj = document.getElementById('txt');
if(document.all && (obj.value.indexOf(str)> -1)){
seltxt = document.getElementById('txt').createTextRange();
seltxt.findText(str);
seltxt.select(); }
}
</script></head><body>
<form name=&quot;test&quot;>
<textarea id=&quot;txt&quot; rows=&quot;6&quot; cols=&quot;12&quot;>This is a TEST
</textarea><p>
Enter Search:<input type=&quot;text&quot; id=&quot;find&quot; size=&quot;20&quot;
 onBlur=&quot;txtsel(this.value);&quot;>
</body></html>

2b||!2b

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Highlighting text in Textbox

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