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    copied!<p>I am trying to build a E pub Reader. I am able to highlight the user selected text and i am getting the x path of that particular selected text. After that i am trying to build a function which takes x path as parameter and show the user selected text by changing background color. but its not working. </p> <p>Code:-</p> <pre><code>function uiWebview_restoreSelection() { var selectionDetails = "/HTML[1]/BODY[1]/DIV[1]/text()[1]|910|/HTML[1]/BODY[1]/DIV[1]/text()[1]|930"; //alert("selectionDetails"+selectionDetails); if (selectionDetails != null) { selectionDetails = selectionDetails.split(/\|/g); alert("selectionDetails" + selectionDetails); if (typeof window.getSelection != 'undefined') { var selection = window.getSelection(); selection.removeAllRanges(); var range = document.createRange(); var selectionDetails0 = selectionDetails[0]; alert("selectionDetails0" + selectionDetails0); selectionDetails0 = selectionDetails0.replace(/\//g, "/h:"); selectionDetails0 = selectionDetails0.replace("h:t", "t"); alert("selectionDetails0" + selectionDetails0); var selectionDetails2 = selectionDetails[2]; alert("selectionDetails2" + selectionDetails2); selectionDetails2 = selectionDetails2.replace(/\//g, "/h:"); selectionDetails2 = selectionDetails2.replace("h:t", "t"); alert("selectionDetails2" + selectionDetails2); range.setStart(document.evaluate(selectionDetails0, document, nsResolver, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue, Number(selectionDetails[1])); range.setEnd(document.evaluate(selectionDetails2, document, nsResolver, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue, Number(selectionDetails[3])); document.designMode = "on"; var newSpanMark = document.createElement("span"); document.execCommand("HiliteColor", false, "red"); range.insertNode(newSpanMark); document.designMode = "off"; } } } </code></pre> <p>Please suggest for the above problem.</p> <p>Thanks in Advance</p>
 

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