Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-08 Thread Ed Mullen

~BD~ wrote:

dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:

I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial
has
a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
function to highlight text. How do I do this?


*Do you mean something as simple as this*?



He /might/ mean that (I doubt it) but the OP hasn't returned since his 
post so we'll never know.


Drive-by postings.  Sigh.

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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-07 Thread ~BD~

dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:

I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial has
a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
function to highlight text. How do I do this?


*Do you mean something as simple as this*?

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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-04 Thread Philip Taylor
Why does he need to be more explicit ?  The four possible
usages you have outlined all above all react identically
to the technique I outlined in my original reply and all
highlight a stretch of text if that technique is used.

Philip Taylor

Ed Mullen wrote:

 You need to be more explicit in your description of what you want to do.
 
 Are you talking about composing/writing HTML?
 Using SeaMonkey Composer?
 Writing HTML in a text editor?
 Copying and pasting from a Web page?


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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-04 Thread Paul B. Gallagher

Philip Taylor wrote:


Why does he need to be more explicit ?  The four possible
usages you have outlined all above all react identically
to the technique I outlined in my original reply and all
highlight a stretch of text if that technique is used.


Some people use highlight to mean select because a selected block of 
text changes color, acquires a colored background, etc. (depending on 
the program). If that's what he means, click and drag will suffice.


But if he's talking about applying some permanent formatting feature 
such as MS Word's highlight, selection is not enough, some further 
action is required.


We won't know until he clarifies.

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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-04 Thread Philip Taylor


Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

 Some people use highlight to mean select because a selected block of
 text changes color, acquires a colored background, etc. (depending on
 the program). If that's what he means, click and drag will suffice.
 
 But if he's talking about applying some permanent formatting feature
 such as MS Word's highlight, selection is not enough, some further
 action is required.

Understood.  I had not considered that meaning of highlight.
Philip Taylor
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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-04 Thread Paul

Philip Taylor wrote:


Paul B. Gallagher wrote:


Some people use highlight to mean select because a selected block of
text changes color, acquires a colored background, etc. (depending on
the program). If that's what he means, click and drag will suffice.

But if he's talking about applying some permanent formatting feature
such as MS Word's highlight, selection is not enough, some further
action is required.


Understood.  I had not considered that meaning of highlight.
Philip Taylor


We may never know what the op meant.
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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-04 Thread Geoff Welsh

Paul wrote:

Philip Taylor wrote:


Paul B. Gallagher wrote:


Some people use highlight to mean select because a selected block of
text changes color, acquires a colored background, etc. (depending on
the program). If that's what he means, click and drag will suffice.

But if he's talking about applying some permanent formatting feature
such as MS Word's highlight, selection is not enough, some further
action is required.


Understood. I had not considered that meaning of highlight.
Philip Taylor


We may never know what the op meant.


I've read it a dozen times, he wants to know how to make SM 2.22  have a 
highlighter function like our tutorial...but without knowing what 
our tutorial is.


GW
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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-04 Thread Paul

Geoff Welsh wrote:

Paul wrote:

Philip Taylor wrote:


Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Some people use highlight to mean select because a selected 
block of

text changes color, acquires a colored background, etc. (depending on
the program). If that's what he means, click and drag will suffice.

But if he's talking about applying some permanent formatting feature
such as MS Word's highlight, selection is not enough, some further
action is required.


Understood. I had not considered that meaning of highlight.
Philip Taylor


We may never know what the op meant.


I've read it a dozen times, he wants to know how to make SM 2.22  have a 
highlighter function like our tutorial...but without knowing what 
our tutorial is.


GW


Oh, yeah, I forgot.
LOL
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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-03 Thread Philip Taylor


dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:

 I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial has
 a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
 function to highlight text. How do I do this?

Position the I-beam cursor at the start of the stretch of text that you
wish to highlight; press and hold the left mouse button; drag the mouse
to the end of the stretch of text; releae the mouse button.  This is
the same set of actions that you might use in any program with a GUI;
it is not specific to Seamonkey.

Philip Taylor
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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-03 Thread Rick Merrill

David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/2/2013 3:27 PM, dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:

I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial has
a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
function to highlight text. How do I do this?




Generally, you cannot manipulate the text on a Web page, including
highlightibng.  I don't know of any browser that allows this.


Perhaps the OP is creating a web page using Composer and wants to highlight 
that?


Note that a PDF file downloaded from a Web server is NOT a Web page even
when it is displayed in a browser.  The ability to highlight text on a
PDF file is a function of Adobe Reader or whatever application you are
using to view the PDF file.  If you are doing this in a browser, it is
actually being done by the plugin provided by Adobe Reader or other
application, not by the browser.  Similarly with a Word file (e.g.,
.doc, .docx) and some other non-HTML files.



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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-03 Thread WaltS

On 11/02/2013 06:27 PM, dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:

I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial has
a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
function to highlight text. How do I do this?





What is the school project?

What tutorial? Maybe it is using the Web Developer Tools in Firefox as 
an example.


Are you viewing a webpage and want to highlight text on that page? 
Phillip Taylor provides those instructions in his reply.


is the Find bar the function you are looking for? Ctrl+F.
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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-03 Thread EE

WaltS wrote:

On 11/02/2013 06:27 PM, dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:

I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial
has
a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
function to highlight text. How do I do this?





What is the school project?

What tutorial? Maybe it is using the Web Developer Tools in Firefox as
an example.

Are you viewing a webpage and want to highlight text on that page?
Phillip Taylor provides those instructions in his reply.

is the Find bar the function you are looking for? Ctrl+F.


Does placing the cursor where you want to start highlighting, pressing 
the left button and dragging the cursor not work to highlight?


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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-03 Thread WaltS

On 11/03/2013 12:41 PM, EE wrote:

WaltS wrote:

On 11/02/2013 06:27 PM, dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:

I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial
has
a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
function to highlight text. How do I do this?





What is the school project?

What tutorial? Maybe it is using the Web Developer Tools in Firefox as
an example.

Are you viewing a webpage and want to highlight text on that page?
Phillip Taylor provides those instructions in his reply.

is the Find bar the function you are looking for? Ctrl+F.


Does placing the cursor where you want to start highlighting, pressing
the left button and dragging the cursor not work to highlight?




Works just fine. Is that what the OP is seeing in his tutorial?

Or is he saying he can use a function to highlight text in the tutorial 
and wants to use that function in SeaMonkey but can't find it?


If I open SeaMonkey and View Source, then use the Find Bar to look for 
div, and select Highlight all, I see every div in the source. Isn't that 
div element text?


If I use the Find Bar on a site and look for a word, select Highlight 
all, isn't that word text.


I've never really used Find before. I'm pretty sure it could find 
phrases if they were entered.


Maybe that function is the Find Bar (Ctrl+F).
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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-03 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/2/2013 4:51 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
 On 11/2/2013 3:27 PM, dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:
 I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial has
 a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
 function to highlight text. How do I do this?


 
 Generally, you cannot manipulate the text on a Web page, including
 highlightibng.  I don't know of any browser that allows this.
 
 Note that a PDF file downloaded from a Web server is NOT a Web page even
 when it is displayed in a browser.  The ability to highlight text on a
 PDF file is a function of Adobe Reader or whatever application you are
 using to view the PDF file.  If you are doing this in a browser, it is
 actually being done by the plugin provided by Adobe Reader or other
 application, not by the browser.  Similarly with a Word file (e.g.,
 .doc, .docx) and some other non-HTML files.
 

My comments above reflect my thought that the OP wanted to highlight
text the way hard copy text can be highlighted with a felt-tip marker.
Word and Adobe Reader have that capability for electronic text.

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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-03 Thread JAS
Philip Taylor wrote:

 dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:

 I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial has
 a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
 function to highlight text. How do I do this?
 Position the I-beam cursor at the start of the stretch of text that you
 wish to highlight; press and hold the left mouse button; drag the mouse
 to the end of the stretch of text; releae the mouse button.  This is
 the same set of actions that you might use in any program with a GUI;
 it is not specific to Seamonkey.

 Philip Taylor
Also, Click the left mouse cursor where you want to begin and then hold
the shift key and click the left mouse cursor where you want to end your
selection.

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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-03 Thread Ed Mullen

Philip Taylor wrote:



dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:


I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial has
a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
function to highlight text. How do I do this?


Position the I-beam cursor at the start of the stretch of text that you
wish to highlight; press and hold the left mouse button; drag the mouse
to the end of the stretch of text; releae the mouse button.  This is
the same set of actions that you might use in any program with a GUI;
it is not specific to Seamonkey.

Philip Taylor



You need to be more explicit in your description of what you want to do.

Are you talking about composing/writing HTML?

Using SeaMonkey Composer?

Writing HTML in a text editor?

Copying and pasting from a Web page?



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Re: How do I highlight text

2013-11-03 Thread Ed Mullen

David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/2/2013 4:51 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/2/2013 3:27 PM, dwal...@clemson.edu wrote:

I am new to Seamonkey and am working on a school project. Our tutorial has
a text highlighter function, but my 2.22 version does not have the
function to highlight text. How do I do this?




Generally, you cannot manipulate the text on a Web page, including
highlightibng.  I don't know of any browser that allows this.

Note that a PDF file downloaded from a Web server is NOT a Web page even
when it is displayed in a browser.  The ability to highlight text on a
PDF file is a function of Adobe Reader or whatever application you are
using to view the PDF file.  If you are doing this in a browser, it is
actually being done by the plugin provided by Adobe Reader or other
application, not by the browser.  Similarly with a Word file (e.g.,
.doc, .docx) and some other non-HTML files.



My comments above reflect my thought that the OP wanted to highlight
text the way hard copy text can be highlighted with a felt-tip marker.
Word and Adobe Reader have that capability for electronic text.



Well, from the OP's post I can only guess at what he wants to do.  So, 
OP?  Chime in and explain yourself - we're all just spinning our wheels 
here until you do.


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