get word click in paragraphs

Question

I have an HTML document with about 30,000 words in it.

I\'d like to be able to do something when a user clicks any word. For simplicity/concept right now, I\'d just

Answer 1

I'm a little late to the party I see.

Try this one out.

init()

function init()
{
    addListeners();
    adjustText(document.getElementById("text"));   
}

function addListeners()
{
    document.body.onclick = clicked;   
}

function adjustText(holder)
{
    text = holder.innerHTML.split(" ");
    holder.innerHTML = "";
    for(var i=0;i

http://jsfiddle.net/AdwCA/2/