EditBox:HighlightText

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	EditBox:HighlightText
	EditBox:ClearHighlightText
	EditBox:GetHighlightColor
	EditBox:SetHighlightColor

Selects text in an EditBox.

EditBox:HighlightText([start, stop])

Arguments

start

number? = 0 - The position at which to start the highlight; defaults to 0 if not specified.

stop

number? = -1 - The position at which to stop the highlight; defaults to the end of the string if not specified. Indices use standard Lua semantics, so -1 is the end of the string.

Details

• The position before the first character is 0.
• Leaving out both parameters, as in EditBox:HighlightText(), will highlight the entire EditBox content.

Examples

editbox:HighlightText()       -- highlights entire content
editbox:HighlightText(0,-1)   -- also entire content
editbox:HighlightText(0,0)    -- removes highlighting