I understand that IE gives access to the Textrange object, which seems to be the heart of all of these scripts. Would I therefore be right in suspecting that you can only do this in IE, and that it's just not possible in Netscape? If it is possible could someone point me in the direction of a suitable script Hi Norman, pedrito just wrote up a cool evolt article about this.. http://evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=2665&catid=20 He gives several references, and the one you may be looking for is http://www.siteexperts.com/tips/contents/ts12/page1.asp I believe it only works on IE4+ browsers, but check it out. -Vince vinceh at eAngler.com