Can one select certain text in a text control?

[Guest PocketLnt]

I'm looking for a way to programatically select certain text in a text control. In another words, I want to take a text control from a form and call a function which will give focus to that control and set an arbitrary number of characters to highlighted.Right now the select() method of the element is the closet thing I have found to accomplish this task, but it apparently only selects the entire text in the control. So what does everyone think, is this possible?

[SillyBilly]

I'm looking for a way to programatically select certain text in a text control. In another words, I want to take a text control from a form and call a function which will give focus to that control and set an arbitrary number of characters to highlighted.Right now the select() method of the element is the closet thing I have found to accomplish this task, but it apparently only selects the entire text in the control. So what does everyone think, is this possible?

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have you tried to google, parse text?

[raimo]

With this one You can get selected text from everywhere, should work with all browsers:

function getSelected(){var s = '';if (window.getSelection)        // Foxy + other lizards{s = window.getSelection();}else if (document.getSelection) // Opera{s = document.getSelection();}else if (document.selection)    // MSIE{s = document.selection.createRange().text;}return s;}

edit:sorry, You are selecting text out there, not getting selected text.I'd read Your post somehow wrong, but anyway You can get selected text asI mentioned. :)edit2:Look this:http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:Selection