how to highlight text in a textbox onclick link

[lli2k5]

I have an input box of type text. It is a simple onclick text in the box and it becomes blank and you can enter stuff in.

<input type="text" name=number value=999 onFocus="this.value=" >

What I'm wondering is if it is possible that when clicked on a link, the text in the textbox becomes highlighted(background blue, text white)?

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

I don't think you can change the color because thats a user preference. To select the text in the box you can use the select() method.
<input type="text" name="number" value="999" onfocus="this.select()">

[Philip M]

Here's an example:-

<p align="center"><center><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#FF0000"><em><b>Additional Comments or Remarks</b></em><br><textarea name = "Remarks" cols = "54" rows = "2" wrap="virtual" style = "font-size: '12pt'; font-weight:'700'; color: 'red'; background:'#FFFFFF';" onfocus = "this.style.background = '#99FF99'" onblur = "this.style.background = '#FFFFFF'"></textarea></font></center></p>

Change the parameters to suit.

[lli2k5]

oh thanks. But, I was expecting the change to be done remotely.

Say we have a link on another part of the page and when clicking that, the style of an input type changes.

So, I was expecting something like onclick="document.formName.inputName.style.color=#CCCCCC" to change the color of text as to work, but it does not.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

That doesn't work because you need to use a string
onclick="document.formName.inputName.style.color='#CCCCCC'"

[lli2k5]

Thanks, it was just those single quotes that killed me