How to HighLight Multiple Lines?

[sarav45]

sir,
i have doubt in built-in "Find in Page" functions...
i want find multiple lines in a page...., but when i use the findText function , it is recognising single line strings , but not for the multple line strings.
i want to find that string and highlight it

pls help me in this regard..,

 

[jaredn]

You're going to have to step through the DOM and find all the Text Nodes first. Once you find a text node, store it's parent in an array. Splice up the parent and children, and add a span to hold the child text node with a css class to highlight it. Now you'd want to rebuild the entire parent node, with the new span included.

There's got to be an easier way to do this, and I don't have time to write all this code right now... good luck. jared@eae.net -

http://webfx.eae.net

 

[sarav45]

hi jaredn,(thanks for ur reply)
actually i want to highlight the text in the textarea

this is the code:
txt = window.document.frmManualEdit.taFileContent.createTextRange();
txt.findText(str);
txt.select();
txt.scrollIntoView();


if str contains string without \n i.e multiline it is highlighting perfectly(works only for single line)

but if \n is found it is not working
thanks in advance
sarav