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| From | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Highlighting text (was: How get windows FIND() to work?) |
| Date | 2020-08-06 02:15 +0200 |
| Organization | PointedEars Software (PES) |
| Message-ID | <1761438.CQOukoFCf9@PointedEars.de> (permalink) |
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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 1:35:10 AM UTC-5, Thomas 'PointedEars'
> Lahn wrote:
>> Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
>> > On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 9:13:41 PM UTC-5, Robert Baer wrote:
>> >> BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any
>> >> way. It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >> highlighted and the first keyword was presented on the screen
^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >> (think loong document and keyword was in middle).
>> >>
>> >> Help?
>> >
>> > Have you tried using the Selection API yet?
>> >
>> > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection>
>>
>> Yes. It provides an interface to the selection *by the user*, so does
>> the opposite thing that was asked for.
>
> Not only:
>
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection/addRange>
OK, that can be useful in a different context. But it is a far cry from
what was being asked for here.
In fact, I found the implementation of all the approaches based on the
document tree extremely tedious and error-prone, so I suggested the
.innerHTML approach.
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Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-08-07 10:27 +0200
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Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-07 18:46 +1000
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Re: Highlighting text (was: How get windows FIND() to work?) "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-08-05 21:59 -0700
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Re: Highlighting text Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:06 -0700
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