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 ) {
12 var patArray = pat.split(" ");
13 for ( var i = 0; i < patArray.length; i++ ) {
14 if ( patArray[i].length == 0 ) continue;
15 $.highlightText.innerHighlight( node, patArray[i] );
19 // scans a node looking for the pattern and wraps a span around each match
20 innerHighlight: function( node, pat ) {
21 // if this is a text node
22 if ( node.nodeType == 3 ) {
23 // TODO - need to be smarter about the character matching here.
24 // non latin characters can make regex think a new word has begun: do not use \b
25 // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3787072/regex-wordwrap-with-utf8-characters-in-js
26 // look for an occurrence of our pattern and store the starting position
27 var match = node.data.match( new RegExp( "(^|\\s)" + $.escapeRE( pat ), "i" ) );
29 var pos = match.index + match[1].length; // include length of any matched spaces
30 // create the span wrapper for the matched text
31 var spannode = document.createElement( 'span' );
32 spannode.className = 'highlight';
33 // shave off the characters preceding the matched text
34 var middlebit = node.splitText( pos );
35 // shave off any unmatched text off the end
36 middlebit.splitText( pat.length );
37 // clone for appending to our span
38 var middleclone = middlebit.cloneNode( true );
39 // append the matched text node to the span
40 spannode.appendChild( middleclone );
41 // replace the matched node, with our span-wrapped clone of the matched node
42 middlebit.parentNode.replaceChild( spannode, middlebit );
44 // if this is an element with childnodes, and not a script, style or an element we created
45 } else if ( node.nodeType == 1 && node.childNodes && !/(script|style)/i.test( node.tagName )
46 && !( node.tagName.toLowerCase() == 'span' && node.className.match( /\bhighlight/ ) ) ) {
47 for ( var i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; ++i ) {
48 // call the highlight function for each child node
49 $.highlightText.innerHighlight( node.childNodes[i], pat );
55 $.fn.highlightText = function( matchString ) {
56 return $( this ).each( function() {
57 var $this = $( this );
58 $this.data( 'highlightText', { originalText: $this.text() } );
59 $.highlightText.splitAndHighlight( this, matchString );