	// change_to: "on" or "off"
	EditArea.prototype.change_highlight= function(change_to){
		if(this.settings["syntax"].length==0 && change_to==false){
			this.switchClassSticky(_$("highlight"), 'editAreaButtonDisabled', true);
			this.switchClassSticky(_$("reset_highlight"), 'editAreaButtonDisabled', true);
			return false;
		}

		if(this.do_highlight==change_to)
			return false;


		this.getIESelection();
		var pos_start= this.textarea.selectionStart;
		var pos_end= this.textarea.selectionEnd;

		if(this.do_highlight===true || change_to==false)
			this.disable_highlight();
		else
			this.enable_highlight();
		this.textarea.focus();
		this.textarea.selectionStart = pos_start;
		this.textarea.selectionEnd = pos_end;
		this.setIESelection();

	};

	EditArea.prototype.disable_highlight= function(displayOnly){
		var t= this, a=t.textarea, new_Obj, old_class, new_class;

		t.selection_field.innerHTML="";
		t.selection_field_text.innerHTML="";
		t.content_highlight.style.visibility="hidden";
		// replacing the node is far more faster than deleting it's content in firefox
		new_Obj= t.content_highlight.cloneNode(false);
		new_Obj.innerHTML= "";
		t.content_highlight.parentNode.insertBefore(new_Obj, t.content_highlight);
		t.content_highlight.parentNode.removeChild(t.content_highlight);
		t.content_highlight= new_Obj;
		old_class= parent.getAttribute( a,"class" );
		if(old_class){
			new_class= old_class.replace( "hidden","" );
			parent.setAttribute( a, "class", new_class );
		}

		a.style.backgroundColor="transparent";	// needed in order to see the bracket finders

		//var icon= document.getElementById("highlight");
		//setAttribute(icon, "class", getAttribute(icon, "class").replace(/ selected/g, "") );
		//t.restoreClass(icon);
		//t.switchClass(icon,'editAreaButtonNormal');
		t.switchClassSticky(_$("highlight"), 'editAreaButtonNormal', true);
		t.switchClassSticky(_$("reset_highlight"), 'editAreaButtonDisabled', true);

		t.do_highlight=false;

		t.switchClassSticky(_$("change_smooth_selection"), 'editAreaButtonSelected', true);
		if(typeof(t.smooth_selection_before_highlight)!="undefined" && t.smooth_selection_before_highlight===false){
			t.change_smooth_selection_mode(false);
		}

	//	this.textarea.style.backgroundColor="#FFFFFF";
	};

	EditArea.prototype.enable_highlight= function(){
		var t=this, a=t.textarea, new_class;
		t.show_waiting_screen();

		t.content_highlight.style.visibility="visible";
		new_class	=parent.getAttribute(a,"class")+" hidden";
		parent.setAttribute( a, "class", new_class );

		// IE can't manage mouse click outside text range without this
		if( t.isIE )
			a.style.backgroundColor="#FFFFFF";

		t.switchClassSticky(_$("highlight"), 'editAreaButtonSelected', false);
		t.switchClassSticky(_$("reset_highlight"), 'editAreaButtonNormal', false);

		t.smooth_selection_before_highlight=t.smooth_selection;
		if(!t.smooth_selection)
			t.change_smooth_selection_mode(true);
		t.switchClassSticky(_$("change_smooth_selection"), 'editAreaButtonDisabled', true);


		t.do_highlight=true;
		t.resync_highlight();

		t.hide_waiting_screen();
	};

	/**
	 * Ask to update highlighted text
	 * @param Array infos - Array of datas returned by EditArea.get_selection_infos()
	 */
	EditArea.prototype.maj_highlight= function(infos){
		// for speed mesure
		var debug_opti="",tps_start= new Date().getTime(), tps_middle_opti=new Date().getTime();
		var t=this, hightlighted_text, updated_highlight;
		var textToHighlight=infos["full_text"], doSyntaxOpti = false, doHtmlOpti = false, stay_begin="", stay_end="", trace_new , trace_last;

		if(t.last_text_to_highlight==infos["full_text"] && t.resync_highlight!==true)
			return;

		//  OPTIMISATION: will search to update only changed lines
		if(t.reload_highlight===true){
			t.reload_highlight=false;
		}else if(textToHighlight.length==0){
			textToHighlight="\n ";
		}else{
			// get text change datas
			changes = t.checkTextEvolution(t.last_text_to_highlight,textToHighlight);

			// check if it can only reparse the changed text
			trace_new		= t.get_syntax_trace(changes.newTextLine).replace(/\r/g, '');
			trace_last		= t.get_syntax_trace(changes.lastTextLine).replace(/\r/g, '');
			doSyntaxOpti	= ( trace_new == trace_last );

			// check if the difference comes only from a new line created
			// => we have to remember that the editor can automaticaly add tabulation or space after the new line)
			if( !doSyntaxOpti && trace_new == "\n"+trace_last && /^[ \t\s]*\n[ \t\s]*$/.test( changes.newText.replace(/\r/g, '') ) && changes.lastText =="" )
			{
				doSyntaxOpti	= true;
			}

			// we do the syntax optimisation
			if( doSyntaxOpti ){

				tps_middle_opti=new Date().getTime();

				stay_begin= t.last_hightlighted_text.split("\n").slice(0, changes.lineStart).join("\n");
				if(changes.lineStart>0)
					stay_begin+= "\n";
				stay_end= t.last_hightlighted_text.split("\n").slice(changes.lineLastEnd+1).join("\n");
				if(stay_end.length>0)
					stay_end= "\n"+stay_end;

				// Final check to see that we're not in the middle of span tags
				if( stay_begin.split('<span').length != stay_begin.split('</span').length
					|| stay_end.split('<span').length != stay_end.split('</span').length )
				{
					doSyntaxOpti	= false;
					stay_end		= '';
					stay_begin		= '';
				}
				else
				{
					if(stay_begin.length==0 && changes.posLastEnd==-1)
						changes.newTextLine+="\n";
					textToHighlight=changes.newTextLine;
				}
			}
			if(t.settings["debug"]){
				var ch =changes;
				debug_opti= ( doSyntaxOpti?"Optimisation": "No optimisation" )
					+" start: "+ch.posStart +"("+ch.lineStart+")"
					+" end_new: "+ ch.posNewEnd+"("+ch.lineNewEnd+")"
					+" end_last: "+ ch.posLastEnd+"("+ch.lineLastEnd+")"
					+"\nchanged_text: "+ch.newText+" => trace: "+trace_new
					+"\nchanged_last_text: "+ch.lastText+" => trace: "+trace_last
					//debug_opti+= "\nchanged: "+ infos["full_text"].substring(ch.posStart, ch.posNewEnd);
					+ "\nchanged_line: "+ch.newTextLine
					+ "\nlast_changed_line: "+ch.lastTextLine
					+"\nstay_begin: "+ stay_begin.slice(-100)
					+"\nstay_end: "+ stay_end.substr( 0, 100 );
					//debug_opti="start: "+stay_begin_len+ "("+nb_line_start_unchanged+") end: "+ (stay_end_len)+ "("+(splited.length-nb_line_end_unchanged)+") ";
					//debug_opti+="changed: "+ textToHighlight.substring(stay_begin_len, textToHighlight.length-stay_end_len)+" \n";

					//debug_opti+="changed: "+ stay_begin.substr(stay_begin.length-200)+ "----------"+ textToHighlight+"------------------"+ stay_end.substr(0,200) +"\n";
					+"\n";
			}


			// END OPTIMISATION
		}

		tps_end_opti	= new Date().getTime();

		// apply highlight
		updated_highlight	= t.colorize_text(textToHighlight);
		tpsAfterReg			= new Date().getTime();

		/***
		 * see if we can optimize for updating only the required part of the HTML code
		 *
		 * The goal here will be to find the text node concerned by the modification and to update it
		 */
		//-------------------------------------------
		//
		if( doSyntaxOpti )
		{
			try
			{
				var replacedBloc, i, nbStart = '', nbEnd = '', newHtml, lengthOld, lengthNew;
				replacedBloc		= t.last_hightlighted_text.substring( stay_begin.length, t.last_hightlighted_text.length - stay_end.length );

				lengthOld	= replacedBloc.length;
				lengthNew	= updated_highlight.length;

				// find the identical caracters at the beginning
				for( i=0; i < lengthOld && i < lengthNew && replacedBloc.charAt(i) == updated_highlight.charAt(i) ; i++ )
				{
				}
				nbStart = i;
				// find the identical caracters at the end
				for( i=0; i + nbStart < lengthOld && i + nbStart < lengthNew && replacedBloc.charAt(lengthOld-i-1) == updated_highlight.charAt(lengthNew-i-1) ; i++ )
				{
				}
				nbEnd	= i;

				// get the changes
				lastHtml	= replacedBloc.substring( nbStart, lengthOld - nbEnd );
				newHtml		= updated_highlight.substring( nbStart, lengthNew - nbEnd );


				// We can do the optimisation only if we havn't touch to span elements
				if( newHtml.indexOf('<span') == -1 && newHtml.indexOf('</span') == -1
					&& lastHtml.indexOf('<span') == -1 && lastHtml.indexOf('</span') == -1 )
				{
					var beginStr, nbOpendedSpan, nbClosedSpan, nbUnchangedChars, span, textNode;
					doHtmlOpti		= true;
					beginStr		= t.last_hightlighted_text.substr( 0, stay_begin.length + nbStart );

					nbOpendedSpan	= beginStr.split('<span').length - 1;
					nbClosedSpan	= beginStr.split('</span').length - 1;
					// retrieve the previously opened span (Add 1 for the first level span?)
					span 			= t.content_highlight.getElementsByTagName('span')[ nbOpendedSpan ];

					//--------[
					// get the textNode to update

					// if we're inside a span, we'll take the one that is opened (can be a parent of the current span)
					parentSpan		= span;
					maxStartOffset	= maxEndOffset = 0;

					// it will be in the child of the root node
					if( nbOpendedSpan == nbClosedSpan )
					{
						while( parentSpan.parentNode != t.content_highlight && parentSpan.parentNode.tagName != 'PRE' )
						{
							parentSpan	= parentSpan.parentNode;
						}
					}
					// get the last opened span
					else
					{
						maxStartOffset	= maxEndOffset = beginStr.length + 1;
						// move to parent node for each closed span found after the lastest open span
						nbClosed = beginStr.substr( Math.max( 0, beginStr.lastIndexOf( '<span', maxStartOffset - 1 ) ) ).split('</span').length - 1;
						while( nbClosed > 0 )
						{
							nbClosed--;
							parentSpan = parentSpan.parentNode;
						}

						// find the position of the last opended tag
						while( parentSpan.parentNode != t.content_highlight && parentSpan.parentNode.tagName != 'PRE' && ( tmpMaxStartOffset = Math.max( 0, beginStr.lastIndexOf( '<span', maxStartOffset - 1 ) ) ) < ( tmpMaxEndOffset = Math.max( 0, beginStr.lastIndexOf( '</span', maxEndOffset - 1 ) ) ) )
						{
							maxStartOffset	= tmpMaxStartOffset;
							maxEndOffset	= tmpMaxEndOffset;
						}
					}
					// Note: maxEndOffset is no more used but maxStartOffset will be used

					if( parentSpan.parentNode == t.content_highlight || parentSpan.parentNode.tagName == 'PRE' )
					{
						maxStartOffset	= Math.max( 0, beginStr.indexOf( '<span' ) );
					}

					// find the matching text node (this will be one that will be at the end of the beginStr
					if( maxStartOffset == beginStr.length )
					{
						nbSubSpanBefore	= 0;
					}
					else
					{
						lastEndPos 				= Math.max( 0, beginStr.lastIndexOf( '>', maxStartOffset ) );

						// count the number of sub spans
						nbSubSpanBefore			= beginStr.substr( lastEndPos ).split('<span').length-1;
					}

					// there is no sub-span before
					if( nbSubSpanBefore == 0 )
					{
						textNode	= parentSpan.firstChild;
					}
					// we need to find where is the text node modified
					else
					{
						// take the last direct child (no sub-child)
						lastSubSpan	= parentSpan.getElementsByTagName('span')[ nbSubSpanBefore - 1 ];
						while( lastSubSpan.parentNode != parentSpan )
						{
							lastSubSpan	= lastSubSpan.parentNode;
						}

						// associate to next text node following the last sub span
						if( lastSubSpan.nextSibling == null || lastSubSpan.nextSibling.nodeType != 3 )
						{
							textNode	= document.createTextNode('');
							lastSubSpan.parentNode.insertBefore( textNode, lastSubSpan.nextSibling );
						}
						else
						{
							textNode	= lastSubSpan.nextSibling;
						}
					}
					//--------]


					//--------[
					// update the textNode content

					// number of caracters after the last opened of closed span
					nbUnchangedChars = beginStr.length - Math.max( 0, beginStr.lastIndexOf( '>' ) + 1 );

					//	console.log( span, textNode, nbOpendedSpan,nbClosedSpan,  span.nextSibling, textNode.length, nbUnchangedChars, lastHtml, lastHtml.length, newHtml, newHtml.length );
					//	alert( textNode.parentNode.className +'-'+ textNode.parentNode.tagName+"\n"+ textNode.data +"\n"+ nbUnchangedChars +"\n"+ lastHtml.length +"\n"+ newHtml +"\n"+ newHtml.length  );

					// IE only manage \r for cariage return in textNode and not \n or \r\n
					if( t.isIE )
					{
						nbUnchangedChars	-= ( beginStr.substr( beginStr.length - nbUnchangedChars ).split("\n").length - 1 );
						//alert( textNode.data.replace(/\r/g, '_r').replace(/\n/g, '_n'));
						textNode.replaceData( nbUnchangedChars, lastHtml.replace(/\n/g, '').length, newHtml.replace(/\n/g, '') );
					}
					else
					{
						textNode.replaceData( nbUnchangedChars, lastHtml.length, newHtml );
					}
					//--------]
				}
			}
			// an exception shouldn't occured but if replaceData failed at least it won't break everything
			catch( e )
			{
		//		throw e;
		//		console.log( e );
				doHtmlOpti	= false;
			}

		}
		/*** END HTML update's optimisation ***/
		// end test

	//			console.log(  (TPS6-TPS5), (TPS5-TPS4), (TPS4-TPS3), (TPS3-TPS2), (TPS2-TPS1), _CPT );
		// get the new highlight content
		tpsAfterOpti2		= new Date().getTime();
		hightlighted_text	= stay_begin + updated_highlight + stay_end;
		if( !doHtmlOpti )
		{
			// update the content of the highlight div by first updating a clone node (as there is no display in the same time for t node it's quite faster (5*))
			var new_Obj= t.content_highlight.cloneNode(false);
			if( ( t.isIE && t.isIE < 8 ) || ( t.isOpera && t.isOpera < 9.6 ) )
				new_Obj.innerHTML= "<pre><span class='"+ t.settings["syntax"] +"'>" + hightlighted_text + "</span></pre>";
			else
				new_Obj.innerHTML= "<span class='"+ t.settings["syntax"] +"'>"+ hightlighted_text +"</span>";

			t.content_highlight.parentNode.replaceChild(new_Obj, t.content_highlight);

			t.content_highlight= new_Obj;
		}

		t.last_text_to_highlight= infos["full_text"];
		t.last_hightlighted_text= hightlighted_text;

		tps3=new Date().getTime();

		if(t.settings["debug"]){
			//lineNumber=tab_text.length;
			//t.debug.value+=" \nNB char: "+_$("src").value.length+" Nb line: "+ lineNumber;

			t.debug.value= "Tps optimisation "+(tps_end_opti-tps_start)
				+" | tps reg exp: "+ (tpsAfterReg-tps_end_opti)
				+" | tps opti HTML : "+ (tpsAfterOpti2-tpsAfterReg) + ' '+ ( doHtmlOpti ? 'yes' : 'no' )
				+" | tps update highlight content: "+ (tps3-tpsAfterOpti2)
				+" | tpsTotal: "+ (tps3-tps_start)
				+ "("+tps3+")\n"+ debug_opti;
		//	t.debug.value+= "highlight\n"+hightlighted_text;*/
		}

	};

	EditArea.prototype.resync_highlight= function(reload_now){
		this.reload_highlight=true;
		this.last_text_to_highlight="";
		this.focus();
		if(reload_now)
			this.check_line_selection(false);
	};
