# Text Highlighting

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-highlighting/216311>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 15, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-highlighting/216311 "2007-02-15T10:48:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![lewi\_p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac91a4/32.png) [@lewi\_p](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lewi_p)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-highlighting/216311/1 "2007-02-15T10:48:32Z")

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Hi,

I’m sure I’ve seen this been done before but I can remember where…Its similar to highlighing text in a textbox.

If I have a variable ‘ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ’ and a textbox set to ‘multiline’…how could I achieve the effect below?

[![](http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5976/highlightex0.th.jpg)](http://img68.imageshack.us/my.php?image=highlightex0.jpg)

I’ve played around with the textfield background colours but that changes the whole box so it just turns into a big colour block…like below ☹

[![](http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/6056/highlight2kq5.th.jpg)](http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=highlight2kq5.jpg)

Any ideas?