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      Internet Explorer 11 Preview
      Ryan Bolz Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:23 PM

      Please be aware that Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Preview is now available. Please feel free to post questions or discussions related to IE 11 Preview in this forum.

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      Microsoft Community team

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      Ryan Bolz Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:24 PM

      Please be aware that Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Preview is now available. Please feel free to post questions or discussions related to IE 11 Preview in this forum.

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      How to develop IE extension to do text highlighting

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      in the document object, retrieves the HTML stuff and highlights certain words. Now, I want this function to be called every time the user visits ANY ...
      Answered | 4 Replies | 5893 Views | Created by Senthil Kumar C vepl - Tuesday, February 3, 2009 10:27 AM | Last reply by Senthil Kumar C vepl - Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:25 AM
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      Preventing control-clicking text in IE7 from highlighting text

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      Does anyone know how to prevent control-clicking text in IE7 from highlighting the text block? I need to use control-clicking for another purpose and the default behavior is ...
      Unanswered | 0 Replies | 3949 Views | Created by LMichaelPost - Thursday, July 5, 2007 5:06 PM
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      dynamically highlighting texts/objects in a webpage

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      Hi, I am trying to build a browser toolbar application that would highlight specific objects or texts in a webpage. For example , if the user enters a ...
      Answered | 4 Replies | 5372 Views | Created by paryal - Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:45 PM | Last reply by paryal - Wednesday, May 7, 2008 10:51 PM
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      IE9 highlighting text in a disabled input bug

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      In Internet Explorer 9 I have a very simple page in which there is a disabled input text field. When I highlight some part of the text present in the input field and then ...
      Proposed | 12 Replies | 5344 Views | Created by wwwStratege - Thursday, August 30, 2012 6:07 PM | Last reply by Marius Grama - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 8:25 AM
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      Windows 8 Internet Explorer with Online Skydrive Word editon crashes when I try and highlight text on the screen

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      Every time I tried to highlight some text to change, move, cut etc the online editor crashed. I think the crash only occurs when I try to delete something in a ...
      Discussion | 2 Replies | 1728 Views | Created by Member Maker - Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:57 AM | Last reply by Robert Aldwinckle on forums - Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:39 PM
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      Rich text editor selection highlighting lost focus outside of iframe

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      , and Chrome.  When the user focuses into the link dialog in IE10 and the highlighting is lost, they are led to believe that the text is no longer selected to create ...
      Answered | 7 Replies | 4849 Views | Created by Erika Ferguson - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:56 PM | Last reply by Erika Ferguson - Wednesday, January 9, 2013 11:44 PM
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      How to highlight selected text in IE 11

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      execCommand() to highlight the selected text. Now I am not able to convert range object to TxtRange and consequently, not able to highlight selected text ...
      Answered | 2 Replies | 2072 Views | Created by Ravi_Srivastava - Saturday, September 27, 2014 7:24 PM | Last reply by 网游 - wang'you - Monday, September 29, 2014 4:12 AM
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      Access Find bar in IE8

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      I want to highlight some text on the page, which is very similar as what the find feature of IE does already. So, I am wondering if it is possible to access the text in find ...
      Unanswered | 3 Replies | 3339 Views | Created by henryyyy - Wednesday, June 3, 2009 4:26 PM | Last reply by jeffdav - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:21 PM
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      Highlight Multiple Selected Words

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      Overview: I want the user to be able to select multiple text strings on a web page and my BHO would highlight all selected text strings. In my BHO I'm able to ...
      Unanswered | 0 Replies | 6255 Views | Created by SoulTraveler - Monday, February 11, 2008 2:57 PM
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      IE8 Accelerators User Control

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      programming info on the accelerator would be great.  I also think Microsoft should extend this control to all of windows.  IE if you select on some text in notepad.. or ...
      Unanswered | 0 Replies | 4080 Views | Created by mattnsnsnsnsn - Friday, June 26, 2009 2:35 AM
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      linking using vse web dev 2012

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      I ma so very sorry, I did not explain correctly. What I meant to say was..." I have not found a facility in to just highlight the text, right
      Unanswered | 2 Replies | 1124 Views | Created by ArbolOne - Monday, July 8, 2013 10:06 AM | Last reply by ArbolOne - Tuesday, July 9, 2013 10:56 AM
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      Anyone notice KB2977629 and KB2976627 disable right-click accelerators?

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      MSIE 11 for Windows 8.1 64-bit cumulative security updates KB2977629 and KB2976627 each seem to disable right-click accelerators for selected-highlighted text on web ...
      Discussion | 2 Replies | 818 Views | Created by Craig in PA - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 12:53 PM | Last reply by Craig in PA - Thursday, September 11, 2014 1:38 PM
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      How to get the top/left position of a text range?

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      followed". I want to use another floating DIV (say, z-index:-1) to cover and highlight this text fragment only. I know textRange object has boundingHeight/Width to get the ...
      Answered | 1 Replies | 1723 Views | Created by TopScorer2013 - Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:58 PM | Last reply by 网游 - wang'you - Friday, January 18, 2013 11:08 PM
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      Not really a development question but I need some help

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      , if I press tab on my keyboard nothing happens, if I attempt to highlight text on a page it does not select anything, does anyone know how to fix this issue, if I use ...
      Answered | 1 Replies | 445 Views | Created by Superman125 - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 2:48 AM | Last reply by Sheng Jiang 蒋晟 - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 4:19 AM
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      IE8 Accelerator - question on selection and link

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      I wrote an accelerator that searches either highlighted text {selection} or the text from a hyperlink {linkText}  and that all works just fine. What ...
      Unanswered | 0 Replies | 4789 Views | Created by brigcampbell - Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:25 PM
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      IHighlightRenderingServices.AddSegment - Large number of segments - poor performance

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      Hi. No. The problem begins after we have already applied all of our highlights. We just observed that to scroll already highlighted text begins very ...
      Unanswered | 4 Replies | 811 Views | Created by Igor Komarnitski - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 12:24 AM | Last reply by Igor Komarnitski - Thursday, December 31, 2015 8:05 PM
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      Create menu on right click after selecting some text

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      Hello Is there a way to define a customized menu on right click after you select a text? The menu list will contain highlight,dictionary,.. I am ...
      Answered | 1 Replies | 1774 Views | Created by Mahagh - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:49 AM | Last reply by Yanjin Xu - MSFT - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:02 AM
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      Problem with Intra frame focus and textbox highlights

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      page3.html opens in the frame with focus on goback1 button in frame. However the text in the page1 is still highlighted.  When we type in some ...
      Unanswered | 1 Replies | 4722 Views | Created by Kishan Kumar - Wednesday, September 5, 2007 6:02 AM | Last reply by unique_username - Wednesday, September 5, 2007 1:51 PM
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      cant highlight and select the text using internet explorer 8 and internet explorer 7 with mvc 4 application after upload a file

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      I have the same problem after submitting  a form through a jquery dialog and jquery ajax.  After the form is submitted and my dialog disappears I cannot select any text anywhere on ...
      Unanswered | 4 Replies | 2136 Views | Created by FernandoXD10 - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 8:18 PM | Last reply by 网游 - wang'you - Wednesday, October 2, 2013 5:07 AM
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      ActiveX methods not available when running in IE11 (Edge) mode

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      the document.selection method to highlight text in pages. A workaround is to use Enterprise Mode, or an x-ua meta or header response to force the current page to ...
      Answered | 9 Replies | 3130 Views | Created by ewheps - Wednesday, November 4, 2015 3:51 AM | Last reply by ewheps - Friday, November 6, 2015 6:39 AM
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      Internet Explorer 11 Preview
      Ryan Bolz Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:23 PM

      Please be aware that Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Preview is now available. Please feel free to post questions or discussions related to IE 11 Preview in this forum.

      Thanks,

      Microsoft Community team

    Internet Explorer Web Development announcements

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      Welcome!
      Ryan Bolz Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:24 PM

      Please be aware that Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Preview is now available. Please feel free to post questions or discussions related to IE 11 Preview in this forum.

      Thanks,

      Microsoft Community team

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