Rich text Highlight with back color? 1

[lameid]

I will admit I have not had the need to dive into rich text...

Hopefully what I am looking to do can be done. I have seen the example to highlight the font color but I want to actually highlight or set the back color. The below literal snippet is shows how I am setting the unbound control on a report. It is much more involved than that and my bold HTML tags in the same control are working. Any thoughts? I suspect it has something to do without using a full HTML document but which parts and how much of what is required would be the question. In case it matters, I also embed Vertical tabs with CHR(11) in the string that is assigned to the unbound report control. I am using Access 2010 for this.

"Leading text <span style=""background-color:yellow;"">Some Text</span> Trailing text"

 

[MajP]

Any chance you can rewrite the question? I cannot interpret what you are asking

 

[MajP]

with the below function I can pass in any string of text and then show it in yellow hilite in a richtext box. Not sure if that is what you are asking.

Private Sub cmdYellow_Click()
  Me.txtColored = MakeYellow(Me.txtEnter)
End Sub

Public Function MakeYellow(TextToColor As String) As String
  'Sets background shading yellow
  MakeYellow = "<div><font style='BACKGROUND-COLOR:#FFFF00'>" & TextToColor & "</font></div>"
End Function

 

[lameid]

Yes. I did manage to figure it out... Wrap each paragraph in a div and use the font tag instead of the span to wrap the text. Caveat it is a HTML doc so embedding vertical tabs, chr(11), or other whitespace will not work, look up the html equivalents. Sorry in the delay, the proxy ate my login ability.