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change the font/color of the selected text on a web page through javascript

 
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I want to write a javascript program which will change the font/color of the user selcted text on a web page.
Is it possible to know the exact location of the selected text from the web page.
I want a user to select a text on a web page and then my javascrip code should locate this text in the web page's source file.
I dont want to search for this text in the source file of the web page.
please help!!!!
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Re: change the font/color of the selected text on a web page through javascript

 
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Hi
I am working on javascript wherein i am trying to highlight the
selected text by changing its background color.

What I want exactly is:
1) When a page is loaded, the user will select some text on the page by
clicking and draggin the mouse
2) I am able to extract the selected text as a string
3) I want to access the exact position of the selected text in the
document object I am using in javascript

Can you please tell me how to access the exact position of text at some
position in the HTML page using the document object, since the same
text string can appear multiple times in the HTML page.
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Re: change the font/color of the selected text on a web page through javascript

 
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Here is a script that captures any text that has been highlighted with the cursor. In Internet Explorer, it even grabs text highlighted within a text box or textarea.

http://javascript.internet.com/page-...hted-text.html

It shouldn't be to much of a stretch to modify the code to change font size and color instead of copying it to a textbox.
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