resources/src/jquery/jquery.highlightText.js

   1 /**
   2  * Plugin that highlights matched word partials in a given element.
   3  * TODO: Add a function for restoring the previous text.
   4  * TODO: Accept mappings for converting shortcuts like WP: to Wikipedia:.
   5  */
   6 ( function ( $, mw ) {
   7
   8         $.highlightText = {
   9
  10                 // Split our pattern string at spaces and run our highlight function on the results
  11                 splitAndHighlight: function ( node, pat ) {
  12                         var i,
  13                                 patArray = pat.split( ' ' );
  14                         for ( i = 0; i < patArray.length; i++ ) {
  15                                 if ( patArray[ i ].length === 0 ) {
  16                                         continue;
  17                                 }
  18                                 $.highlightText.innerHighlight( node, patArray[ i ] );
  19                         }
  20                         return node;
  21                 },
  22
  23                 // scans a node looking for the pattern and wraps a span around each match
  24                 innerHighlight: function ( node, pat ) {
  25                         var i, match, pos, spannode, middlebit, middleclone;
  26                         if ( node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE ) {
  27                                 // TODO - need to be smarter about the character matching here.
  28                                 // non latin characters can make regex think a new word has begun: do not use \b
  29                                 // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3787072/regex-wordwrap-with-utf8-characters-in-js
  30                                 // look for an occurrence of our pattern and store the starting position
  31                                 match = node.data.match( new RegExp( '(^|\\s)' + mw.RegExp.escape( pat ), 'i' ) );
  32                                 if ( match ) {
  33                                         pos = match.index + match[ 1 ].length; // include length of any matched spaces
  34                                         // create the span wrapper for the matched text
  35                                         spannode = document.createElement( 'span' );
  36                                         spannode.className = 'highlight';
  37                                         // shave off the characters preceding the matched text
  38                                         middlebit = node.splitText( pos );
  39                                         // shave off any unmatched text off the end
  40                                         middlebit.splitText( pat.length );
  41                                         // clone for appending to our span
  42                                         middleclone = middlebit.cloneNode( true );
  43                                         // append the matched text node to the span
  44                                         spannode.appendChild( middleclone );
  45                                         // replace the matched node, with our span-wrapped clone of the matched node
  46                                         middlebit.parentNode.replaceChild( spannode, middlebit );
  47                                 }
  48                         } else if (
  49                                 node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE &&
  50                                 // element with childnodes, and not a script, style or an element we created
  51                                 node.childNodes &&
  52                                 !/(script|style)/i.test( node.tagName ) &&
  53                                 !(
  54                                         node.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'span' &&
  55                                         node.className.match( /\bhighlight/ )
  56                                 )
  57                         ) {
  58                                 for ( i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; ++i ) {
  59                                         // call the highlight function for each child node
  60                                         $.highlightText.innerHighlight( node.childNodes[ i ], pat );
  61                                 }
  62                         }
  63                 }
  64         };
  65
  66         $.fn.highlightText = function ( matchString ) {
  67                 return this.each( function () {
  68                         var $el = $( this );
  69                         $el.data( 'highlightText', { originalText: $el.text() } );
  70                         $.highlightText.splitAndHighlight( this, matchString );
  71                 } );
  72         };
  73
  74 }( jQuery, mediaWiki ) );