On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:06 +0200, Michael Borchers wrote: > found an old function that worked fine so far in IE but not in FF. FF > says createTextRange() is no function. why? Shoving createTextRange into Google turns up http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/createtextrange.asp as the first hit. This says: "There is no public standard that applies to this method." So presumably it is a non-standard prioprietry extension that Microsoft has invented and Mozilla hasn't implemented. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> "Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another." -- The Greatest Show in the Galaxy