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:.
10 // Split our pattern string at spaces and run our highlight function on the results
11 splitAndHighlight: function ( node, pat ) {
13 patArray = pat.split( ' ' );
14 for ( i = 0; i < patArray.length; i++ ) {
15 if ( patArray[ i ].length === 0 ) {
18 $.highlightText.innerHighlight( node, patArray[ i ] );
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' ) );
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 );
49 node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE &&
50 // element with childnodes, and not a script, style or an element we created
52 !/(script|style)/i.test( node.tagName ) &&
54 node.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'span' &&
55 node.className.match( /\bhighlight/ )
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 );
66 $.fn.highlightText = function ( matchString ) {
67 return this.each( function () {
69 $el.data( 'highlightText', { originalText: $el.text() } );
70 $.highlightText.splitAndHighlight( this, matchString );
74 }( jQuery, mediaWiki ) );