Make a certain word a certain color in a textbox with rich text

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#1

i want to make it so if it find the word sell in the string of text then it makes only that word blue for example. how do i do that

local text = script.Parent.inner.TextBox.Text
	if text:find(string.lower("sell")) then -- this only find the word but how do i make it make that word a certain color
		print("found")
	end
#2

I believe something like this would work, could be new methods, idk
also I heard about a module , because I was searching for a module I found this one , no idea how good or new it is but Rich Text Markup - Roblox

local label = script.Parent
local text = "hehehehaw"


	label.Text = text
	local term = "hehe"
	if term ~= "" then
		local split = text:split(term)
		if #split - 1 > 0 then
			label.Text = table.concat(split, "<font color=\"#00ff00\">"..term.."</font>")
		end
	end

Basically the term is the one that gets colored

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#3

You should lookup tutorials on ‘rich text’ in Roblox.

I want the <font color="#FFA500">orange</font> candy.
#4

the output says
Maximum event re-entrancy depth exceeded for Instance.Changed (x786)
the instance (textlabel) was only changed once i did a .changed event for when i updated the text

#5

Could you possibly show some of your code, it might just have a slight problem

#6

its supposed to see if the text contains the word “selling” and if it does it makes that word a certain color

script.Parent.Changed:Connect(function() -- it changes when i update the text
	local label = script.Parent
	local text = label.Text
	local term = "selling"
	if term ~= "" then
		local split = text:split(term)
		if #split - 1 > 0 then
			local new = table.concat(split, "<font color=\"#2f38ff\">"..term.."</font>")
			label.Text = new
		end
	end
end)
#7

use this instead, tell me if the error still occurs, I might have to test the script myself then

script.Parent:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Text"):Connect(function()
local label = script.Parent
	local text = label.Text
	local term = "selling"
	if term ~= "" then
		local split = text:split(term)
		if #split - 1 > 0 then
			local new = table.concat(split, "<font color=\"#2f38ff\">"..term.."</font>")
			label.Text = new
		end
	end
end)
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#8

i already tried that. it does nothing. the script never even starts to run

#9

Well, the way this works, is when the text of the script.parent changes it runs this function.
make sure this code is in a local script inside a object that has a text property for ex, textbox or label

#10

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it is and the text is updating/changing the script doesnt run tho

#11

also the text doesn’t update right either. it should say "selling is coming soon"

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#12

Is rich text enabled? Double check it!

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#13

actually it completely works

script.Parent:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Text"):Connect(function()
local label = script.Parent
	local text = label.Text
	local term = "selling"
	if term ~= "" then
		local split = text:split(term)
		if #split - 1 > 0 then
			local new = table.concat(split, "<font color=\"#2f38ff\">"..term.."</font>")
			label.Text = new
		end
	end
end)

put rich text enabled

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#14

o damn i can’t believe i forgot that ya it wasnt. the first one i had it was but i made a new one for testing. thank you đŸ„č

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