[Phpwm] CSS highlighting

[David Goodwin]

Phil Beynon wrote :
> another question......
> 
> Is there a way to use CSS & or javascript to highlight a text sub string, in
> a similar way as setting the background colour via tags?
> 
> Obviously just in a bit of text printed on the screen its just a matter (as
> a minimum effort) of wrapping it in a font tag background = whatever, but
> I'm aiming to higlight pattern matched bits into and editable Iframe / text
> editor GUI bit, so I don't want scatered remains of tags etc lurking in the
> text should the user delete the highlighted bit.
> Since the user could edit all or anything anything around the highlighted
> bit it might be tricky to maintain exactly where any highlighting bits were
> initially once the edited text is returned back to the server.
> 
> Something like a client side preg_replace() where the highlighting was
> actually at a level where it was untouchable during editing really.

I presume what you're asking for cannot be any different to how e.g.
tinymce (or other js editors) handle text that may be
formatted/highlighted etc. ?

In which case, why not just use something like TinyMCE?

David.
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