When highlighting a character string using onClick, becoming familiar with a few helpful techniques used with the browser make the highlighting procedure quite easy. Although these techniques may vary somewhat depending on the type of PC as well as the versions of Windows and the browser being used, the following provides an explanation of those techniques with the hope that it will be of reference when using onClick.

1. A single word can be highlighted simply by double clicking on that word. Once the mouse cursor has changed to an arrow, double click on the word. Furthermore, entire paragraph can be highlighted by triple clicking (or by single clicking while depressing the Ctrl key).
2. Although highlighting is performed by pressing the mouse button at the start of a character string, dragging the mouse and then releasing the mouse button at the end of the character string, in the case of English words, a character string can be highlighted to the end of the string by dragging rapidly even if the mouse button is released before reaching the end of the character string. This makes it possible to highlight a character string without having to drag all the way to the end of the string. Practicing this technique will make you more familiar with it the more you use it.
3. Highlighting can also be performed in the reverse direction starting from the end of a character string and moving towards the beginning.
4. The following technique is helpful in cases of highlighting more of a character string that you want as a result of going past the end of the desired character string and into the next. Namely, you can highlight a character string one character at a time to a desired ending point by dragging from the start of the character string while pressing the mouse button and simultaneously depressing the Shift key. In addition, you can highlight an entire character string all at once by pressing the mouse button at the start of a character string, releasing the mouse button, and then pressing the mouse button at the desired ending point of the character string while depressing the Shift key.
5. Similarly, you can also highlight an entire block of words all at once by double clicking on a word, and then pressing the mouse button at the desired ending point while depressing the Shift key.
6. When it is difficult to highlight a character due to the character being extremely small, select a larger character size from the Character Size menu of the browser. It may be difficult to enlarge characters on web pages in which character size is fixed.
7. Use the deLink function to highlight the character string of a link.
8. If a character string has been highlighted in a manner different from which you intended, highlighting can be canceled by clicking at any point outside the highlighted area (once the mouse cursor has changed from an arrow to an I-beam). Once you have canceled the highlighting, you can then repeat the highlighting procedure as you intended.