highlighting all matching words in div from text input

Question

I have made a function which highlights matching words in a div. but if there are two identical words separated by a different word then only the first word is highlight. so for example if the search criterion was the word "burn", and in the text was the sentence "burn baby burn", I would want it to highlight both "burn"'s. this jsFiddle demonstrates how it only highlights the first "burn". Here is the code below also. Any help much appreciated. Thanks for reading.

css

.highlight{
            font-weight:bold;
            color:green;
}

html

<input id = "search" type ="text" value = "burn">
<div class = "searchable">burn baby burn</div>

javascript

if($('#search').val().length !== 0){
   $('.searchable').each(function(){
   $(this).html($(this).html().replace($('#search').val(),"<span class = 'highlight'>"+$('#search').val()+"</span>"));
 });
}

Prettify

Answer 1

You can pass a regular expression into replace() instead of the string, with the g modifier to make replace perform a global match.

if($('#search').val().length !== 0){
   $('.searchable').each(function(){
   var search_value = $("#search").val();
   var search_regexp = new RegExp(search_value, "g");
   $(this).html($(this).html().replace(search_regexp,"<span class = 'highlight'>"+search_value+"</span>"));
 });
}

Marenmarena

Answer 2

1. Take care of regex special characters.

2. Maintain uppercase & lowercase.

So taking care of above things with case insensitive search (in most cases, this is desired; otherwise just remove "i"), here is the final code...

if ($('#search').val().length !== 0) {
    $('.searchable').each(function() {
        //Handle special characters used in regex
        var searchregexp = new RegExp($("#search").val().replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&'), "gi");

        //$& will maintain uppercase and lowercase characters.
        $(this).html($(this).html().replace(searchregexp, "<span class = 'highlight'>$&</span>"));
    });
}

And a fiddle.

Slapdash

This answer also handles special characters in the search string. – Absently

Answer 3

Here's a working jsfiddle for you. Basically, get the text from the div, split it on space, loop through the words and see if one matches.

var term = $('#search').val().trim().toLowerCase();
if (term.length > 0) {
    var source = $('.searchable').text();
    var words = source.split(' ');
    var output = '';
    $.each(words, function(idx, word) {
        if (term === word.toLowerCase()) {
            output += '<span class="highlight">' + word + '</span> ';
        } else {
             output += word + ' ';   
        }
    });

    $('.searchable').html(output);
}

Aiken

Answer 4

Use regular expression with :

• global 'g' flag to replace all the matches
• ignore case 'i' to match all cases

Do not forget to escape special characters

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

const SEARCH_VALUE = $("#search").val().trim();

if (SEARCH_VALUE.length > 0) {
  $('.searchable').each(function() {
    const DIV_TEXT_CONTENT = $('.searchable').text();
    const SPLIT_CONTENT = DIV_TEXT_CONTENT.split(" ");

    SPLIT_CONTENT.forEach((word, index) => {
      const SEARCH_REGEXP = new RegExp(escapeRegExp(SEARCH_VALUE), "gi")
      if (SEARCH_REGEXP.test(word))
        $(this).html($(this).html().replace(SEARCH_REGEXP, "<span class = 'highlight'>" + word + "               </span>"));
    });
  })
}

function escapeRegExp(text) {
  return text.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g, "\\$&");
}

.highlight {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: green;
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input id="search" type="text" value="BuRn">
<div class="searchable">burn baby burn</div>

Bellinger