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, text ) {
13 words = text.split( ' ' );
14 for ( i = 0; i < words.length; i++ ) {
15 if ( words[ i ].length === 0 ) {
18 $.highlightText.innerHighlight(
20 new RegExp( '(^|\\s)' + mw.RegExp.escape( words[ i ] ), 'i' )
26 prefixHighlight: function ( node, prefix ) {
27 $.highlightText.innerHighlight(
29 new RegExp( '(^)' + mw.RegExp.escape( prefix ), 'i' )
33 // scans a node looking for the pattern and wraps a span around each match
34 innerHighlight: function ( node, pat ) {
35 var i, match, pos, spannode, middlebit, middleclone;
36 if ( node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE ) {
37 // TODO - need to be smarter about the character matching here.
38 // non latin characters can make regex think a new word has begun: do not use \b
39 // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3787072/regex-wordwrap-with-utf8-characters-in-js
40 // look for an occurrence of our pattern and store the starting position
41 match = node.data.match( pat );
43 pos = match.index + match[ 1 ].length; // include length of any matched spaces
44 // create the span wrapper for the matched text
45 spannode = document.createElement( 'span' );
46 spannode.className = 'highlight';
47 // shave off the characters preceding the matched text
48 middlebit = node.splitText( pos );
49 // shave off any unmatched text off the end
50 middlebit.splitText( match[ 0 ].length - match[ 1 ].length );
51 // clone for appending to our span
52 middleclone = middlebit.cloneNode( true );
53 // append the matched text node to the span
54 spannode.appendChild( middleclone );
55 // replace the matched node, with our span-wrapped clone of the matched node
56 middlebit.parentNode.replaceChild( spannode, middlebit );
59 node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE &&
60 // element with childnodes, and not a script, style or an element we created
62 !/(script|style)/i.test( node.tagName ) &&
64 node.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'span' &&
65 node.className.match( /\bhighlight/ )
68 for ( i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; ++i ) {
69 // call the highlight function for each child node
70 $.highlightText.innerHighlight( node.childNodes[ i ], pat );
77 * Highlight certain text in current nodes (by wrapping it in `<span class="highlight">...</span>`).
79 * @param {string} matchString String to match
80 * @param {Object} [options]
81 * @param {string} [options.method='splitAndHighlight'] Method of matching to use, one of:
82 * - 'splitAndHighlight': Split `matchString` on spaces, then match each word separately.
83 * - 'prefixHighlight': Match `matchString` at the beginning of text only.
87 $.fn.highlightText = function ( matchString, options ) {
88 options = options || {};
89 options.method = options.method || 'splitAndHighlight';
90 return this.each( function () {
92 $el.data( 'highlightText', { originalText: $el.text() } );
93 $.highlightText[ options.method ]( this, matchString );
97 }( jQuery, mediaWiki ) );