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 this is a text node
27 if ( node.nodeType === 3 ) {
28 // TODO - need to be smarter about the character matching here.
29 // non latin characters can make regex think a new word has begun: do not use \b
30 // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3787072/regex-wordwrap-with-utf8-characters-in-js
31 // look for an occurrence of our pattern and store the starting position
32 match = node.data.match( new RegExp( '(^|\\s)' + $.escapeRE( pat ), 'i' ) );
34 pos = match.index + match[1].length; // include length of any matched spaces
35 // create the span wrapper for the matched text
36 spannode = document.createElement( 'span' );
37 spannode.className = 'highlight';
38 // shave off the characters preceding the matched text
39 middlebit = node.splitText( pos );
40 // shave off any unmatched text off the end
41 middlebit.splitText( pat.length );
42 // clone for appending to our span
43 middleclone = middlebit.cloneNode( true );
44 // append the matched text node to the span
45 spannode.appendChild( middleclone );
46 // replace the matched node, with our span-wrapped clone of the matched node
47 middlebit.parentNode.replaceChild( spannode, middlebit );
49 // if this is an element with childnodes, and not a script, style or an element we created
50 } else if ( node.nodeType === 1 && node.childNodes && !/(script|style)/i.test( node.tagName )
51 && !( node.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'span' && node.className.match( /\bhighlight/ ) ) ) {
52 for ( i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; ++i ) {
53 // call the highlight function for each child node
54 $.highlightText.innerHighlight( node.childNodes[i], pat );
60 $.fn.highlightText = function ( matchString ) {
61 return this.each( function () {
63 $el.data( 'highlightText', { originalText: $el.text() } );
64 $.highlightText.splitAndHighlight( this, matchString );