add custom tags to text

[firefoxguy]

Hi all,

I'm creating a firefox extention where i want to highlight some text when the user selects it.

Now i am able to grab the selected text using

window.getSelection() method

but i dont know how to add html tags to this text in order to keep this text highlighted.

Any help would be great

[dexfantasy]

Not sure how to do this but you may want to check out

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=791

From what you are describing, it sounds like this extension already does what you want. If it's not to convoluted, you can sift through the XPI for the code you need.

Good luck,

Dex

[firefoxguy]

Thanks for that, It really helped me a lot