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How do I highlight text in a textarea on a form that is being edited?

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moham

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Nov 12, 2001
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How do I select/highlight a single word inside a textarea if I know the location(index) of that word in the string using javascript?
 
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I figured this out using (IE Specific) -->creatTextRange() method for the textarea element.
 
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