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Hey

I was wondering how you allow the user to highlight text they've typed (in a form) and click a button to edit its style (placing tags around the highlighted text).

Could someone explain this a little further and perhaps provide an example.

Thanks in advance.

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I have two jQuery plugins that do something like this. One highlights (highlight) search text, the other one turns words on a page into wiki links (wikify). If you are interested, you can find them here:

http://www.pritaeas.net/public/jquery/

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That looks great, thank you very much!

While I'm here I wonder if you could help with a problem I'm having...
I have something in a db and Im pulling it into my html sheet.
This is what is in the database ....

<font color='pink'> listen </font> now!

But what's printed on the page is:
<font color='pink'> listen </font> now!

Any ideas?


Thanks

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Sorry the quote above isn't working properly.
Basically the string is in entities..

Daniweb is putting quotes and changing them back though.

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