Hi Everyone,
I would like to know if there is any way to change the color of a part of text in rich textbox when the user types it automatically like the way in vb.net IDE (Classes have blue etc.).
Thanks in advance,
Yuvjeeth
yuvjeeth
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Jump to PostI guess you're talking about Syntax Highlighting. You need to select that part of text by using SelectionStart & SelectionLength (from RichTextBox) and then, change it's color with SelectionColor.
As an example, this code makes the first 10 characters blue:
richTextBox1.SelectionStart = 0; richTextBox1.SelectionLength = 10; richTextBox1.SelectionColor …
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TheApex
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I guess you're talking about Syntax Highlighting. You need to select that part of text by using SelectionStart & SelectionLength (from RichTextBox) and then, change it's color with SelectionColor.
As an example, this code makes the first 10 characters blue:
richTextBox1.SelectionStart = 0;
richTextBox1.SelectionLength = 10;
richTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color.Blue;
yuvjeeth
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but I want to highlight some parts of HTML document such as tags in my app. So how do I do that because all tag lengths are not equal
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