The example sentence I used above actually uses every single letter of the English alphabet. This would, I'm sure, require some DllCall's.Ī little easter egg. But how much I'd hate to say it, it's way out of my league. This is a pretty complex method that I can think of.
#HOW TO HIGHLIGHT TEXT ON A WEBPAGE FULL#
But in replace to step 4, it'd just add that portion of the text to the end of the current string in the clipboard, or where ever else it was in the full text. Then when you highlight another portion of text, it'd repeat steps 1-5. Then paste the image on top of your desktop over the un-highlighted text, I've seen it done before, to simulate it being highlighted even though it actually is not.Ħ. Then it'd copy the selected text that is highlighted to clipboard.ĥ. Then it'd recolor the background of the text to blue to simulate a highlight.Ĥ. Then the script could tell what is text and what is not, possibly rule out anything that is not black, would only work for black text in that case.ģ. Possibly get the image of the text, there's many ways that it's doable, I've seen it done.Ģ.
#HOW TO HIGHLIGHT TEXT ON A WEBPAGE HOW TO#
I've been wanting this feature for a while, just never really knew how to make it and never had the incentive to.ġ. If I were to ctrl-c and copy and then ctrl-v to paste it, the results would look like this. So what it'd look like is this, " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs."
Then I hold control and drag highlight this portion of the text, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs." I drag highlight this portion, " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs." "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs." Where you can drag highlight over some text, then hold ctrl and drag highlight over some other text without selecting the text inbetween. I was wondering if there was any possible way you could do this with text. But when you click file 1 and hold ctrl and click file 5, it only selects file 1 and 5, not the ones inbetween.
You click file 1, hold shift and click file 5 and it selects them all inbetween. For instance, when you're moving files, if you hold shift you can select files in a series. You can now do your Copy, Cut or whatever else you wish to do with the text.Īnd by the way, this tip works on Macs and Chromebooks as well.īonus tip: This post explains how to quickly reopen a browser tab that you closed by accident.Does anyone know of any way you could possibly highlight various parts of some text with breaks in between the selection. Don’t worry if you have to scroll the page up or down in order to find it.ģ – Once you have found the last word in the desired block of text, press and hold the Shift key and then click on that last word.Īfter you make that last click you should see that everything that’s located between the two words you clicked on is now highlighted. That word should now be highlighted.Ģ – Now find the last word in the block of text you want to select. 5 years is a long time though, so I decided to revisit the concept and fix it up for modern browsers.
Here’s all you need to do:ġ – Double-click on the first word in the block of text that you want to select. Why Way back in 2010, I made a site called Regex Storm that would highlight regex matches in a