/** * Plugin that highlights matched word partials in a given element * TODO: add a function for restoring the previous text * TODO: accept mappings for converting shortcuts like WP: to Wikipedia: */ ( function( $ ) { $.highlightText = { // Split our pattern string at spaces and run our highlight function on the results splitAndHighlight: function( node, pat ) { var patArray = pat.split(" "); for ( var i = 0; i < patArray.length; i++ ) { if ( patArray[i].length == 0 ) continue; $.highlightText.innerHighlight( node, patArray[i] ); } return node; }, // scans a node looking for the pattern and wraps a span around each match innerHighlight: function( node, pat ) { // if this is a text node if ( node.nodeType == 3 ) { // TODO - need to be smarter about the character matching here. // non latin characters can make regex think a new word has begun: do not use \b // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3787072/regex-wordwrap-with-utf8-characters-in-js // look for an occurence of our pattern and store the starting position var match = node.data.match( new RegExp( "(^|\\s)" + $.escapeRE( pat ), "i" ) ); if ( match ) { var pos = match.index + match[1].length; // include length of any matched spaces // create the span wrapper for the matched text var spannode = document.createElement( 'span' ); spannode.className = 'highlight'; // shave off the characters preceding the matched text var middlebit = node.splitText( pos ); // shave off any unmatched text off the end middlebit.splitText( pat.length ); // clone for appending to our span var middleclone = middlebit.cloneNode( true ); // append the matched text node to the span spannode.appendChild( middleclone ); // replace the matched node, with our span-wrapped clone of the matched node middlebit.parentNode.replaceChild( spannode, middlebit ); } // if this is an element with childnodes, and not a script, style or an element we created } else if ( node.nodeType == 1 && node.childNodes && !/(script|style)/i.test( node.tagName ) && !( node.tagName.toLowerCase() == 'span' && node.className.match( /\bhighlight/ ) ) ) { for ( var i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; ++i ) { // call the highlight function for each child node $.highlightText.innerHighlight( node.childNodes[i], pat ); } } } }; $.fn.highlightText = function( matchString ) { return $( this ).each( function() { var $this = $( this ); $this.data( 'highlightText', { originalText: $this.text() } ); $.highlightText.splitAndHighlight( this, matchString ); } ); }; } )( jQuery );