On Apr 25, 6:01 pm, Domizio Demichelis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to highlight certain areas of the main html page from inside a
> FB extension.
>
> The area might be composed of multiple nodes of different nodeType. I have
> tried to use the Firebug.Inspector.highlightObject() function that accepts
> an array of elements. So far so good.
>
> The problem I have is that if I higlight a node of nodeType == 3 (a text
> node) the highlightObject() does not highlight the area of the text, but it
> highlights the parentNode, and that completely screw the purpose of my
> extension, which is marking certain areas of the inspected page.
>
> Is that a wanted behaviour? I was thinkig to wrap it with a <span> tag, but
> I would like to avoid any alteration of the original page. How could I limit
> the highight to the text node?
Since a text node is not an element it does not seem to have a height
width or position. I suppose that is why the Firebug code has
if(elt.nodeType === 3)
elt = elt.parentNode;
jjb
>
> Thank you in advance.
> dd
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