Highlighting search text

[deltrotter]

Hi

I couldn't see a function in the sticky at the top of the forum, so I will ask:

Does anyone use a funtion to highlight search terms (if they have a search facility on their site).

Basically, I would be sending the search terms from a form field into a results page. If there are results I would like the search terms to be highlighted. One problem that I could think while using "replace" is that capitalisation would not be maintained.

Thanks to any help.

Cheers

Del

[Thing]

Once you match the results you can replace your search term with a font tag wrapped around it like so:

search_text = "test"
text_to_search = "This is a test to see the search text highlighted"
 
response.write REPLACE(text_to_search, search_text, "<font color=""red"">" & search_text & "</font>")

This will basically replace your search text with the same text highlighted in red.

[deltrotter]

Thanks thing

I'll have a go at that. Will it work where thereare more than one search term?

Cheers

Del