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danielle.allen09@Yahoo.com...	danielle.allen09@Yahoo.com... posted 11 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 11	I am trying to program an ego depletion task in which participants must 'cross out' all occurrences of the letter 'e' in a paragraph of text. I want them to be able to click on letters in the text and the letter turn green; if they click it again, I would like the text to turn back to black. I found this forum (http://www.millisecond.com/forums/Topic7396.aspx) which helped some, but this programs the entire word to turn green... I need the individual letters to turn green. Any help on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated!
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Dave	Dave posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 108K	The approach to use is identical as the one outlined in the thread you referenced. The only difference is that you must represent every single letter as a separate <text> element instead of every single word.
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danielle.allen09@Yahoo.com...	danielle.allen09@Yahoo.com... posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 11	Okay, that is what I was doing. It was just getting a little complicated with the positioning of the words so I wanted to make sure there wasn't a shortcut I was missing. Thanks!
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Dave	Dave posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 108K	No, there isn't any other shortcut, I'm afraid. The units you're interested in (here: individual letters) must be represented as distinct objects (here: a <text> element for each letter) for you to be able to interact with them. And yes, positioning all those objects can become a bit tedious. In that regard, note that elements can be positioned relative to each other (e.g. http://www.millisecond.com/forums/FindPost13663.aspx ). Hope this clarifies.
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