Expert: Srini Nagarajan - 7/2/2008

Question
hi,i have created a tool in c#.net which displays data in a datagridview.i have provide a 'Find' button for searching a word in the whole datagridview.but,i am able to highlight the whole cell containg that word.i want to highlight only that word.i am not able to get the selected text from the current cell.please tell me how to do that.

Answer
Hi

Sorry for the delay, i was away!! (Still away)

You can do it thru javascript

here are some of the sample

http://eriwen.com/javascript/highlight-search-results-with-js/

http://www.tedpavlic.com/post_highlighting_search_results_with_ted_searchhi_java...

Hope helps.

Thanks

-Srini