I'm sorry I misunderstood your previous request :-D. I must say that selecting text is different in every browsers. I posted IE methods (whoops! ;-) )

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this should work in mozilla firefox :

var selDiv = document.getElementById("selected"); //what I want to highlight with selection var notSelDiv = document.getElementById("notselected"); var range = document.createRange(); range.setStart(selDiv, 0); range.setEnd(notSelDiv, 0); var sel = window.getSelection(); //selection Object if (sel.rangeCount > 0) sel.removeAllRanges(); sel.addRange(range); --------------------------------

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But Safari throws an error while processing the last method (the one which actually highlight text), so you should try:

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window.getSelection().setBaseAndExtent(selDiv, 0, selDiv, 1);

So you'll only need to play around with this (strange and mostly unknown) method. -------------------------------- You can still use

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document.execCommand("Unselect");

to get rid of the selection. P.S. I made a mistake in my last post. TextRange are only supported by Internet Explorer. There is a Range Object in Gecko, anyway.

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Folks, I've been all over the net without finding a definitive answer, so I thought I'd come to the source. Is there any way, in Safari/webkit, to programmatically select some text in javascript? _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@opendarwin.org http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev

Yes, of course. You should use the "document.execCommand(few args)" command. I successfully tested the 'SelectAll", "Copy", "Unselect" arguments in my dashboard widget. It works with text range too.

More info on Msdn pages: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/ execcommand.asp

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