Highlight text within textbox? 1

[FancyPrairie]

I want to set focus to a text box and automatically highlight the text within the text box. Setting focus is no problem, but how do I highlight the text?

 

[Fendal]

You don't, you can change the background colour of a text box and the color of the text, you can highlight the text in a font, div or span tag though.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Try using the "select" method after the "focus" method:

el.focus();
el.select();

I'm not sure how cross-browser it is, but give it a whirl anyway.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Apologies - I hadn't realised I was posting in the HTML forum.

FancyPrairie,

if you need to dissuss my JavaScript solution further, you should take it to the JavaScript forum (forum216).

Dan

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