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[nswan]

Hi,

I need to be able to seach a text box for a string and if it is contained highlight it(much like the 'find' on IE.)

I know how to search the textbox using instr, but how do i highight the text? In VB6 it used to be selStart and selLength or something but can't do it in asp.net.

Thanks
Nick

[Memnoch1207]

Check the following

SelectedText - Gets or sets a value indicating the currently selected text in the control.
SelectionLength - Gets or sets the number of characters selected in the text box.
SelectionStart - Gets or sets the starting point of text selected in the text box.

[nswan]

yeah i found that but i think that only works for windows controls, not webcontrols.

[hellswraith]

You are working with a stateless and limited GUI environment. Somethings will have to be done client side. So, ASP.NET can't do this for you, but I believe you can do what you want with javascript. You should look in that direction.

Here, maybe this will get you started:
http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/s...d=197&lngWId=2