You can use regular expressions to get this to work; you'll want to read up on the RegExp object. You can then define your regular expression in such a way that you "ignore" text within <> characters. Also, make sure you consider case-sensitivity (should you also highlight "Image"?). The RegExp object has a property called IgnoreCase to deal with this.
And, what if "image" is found within another word? For example, should "primage" match? (Yes, this is a word). Anyway, the tricky bit is getting your regular expression right. Once you do that, you can just use the Replace property of the RegExp object. -Dave -----Original Message----- From: Thomas V. Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 2:39 AM To: ActiveServerPages Subject: RE: Google Highlight The problem lies in, if you search for at term like "image", then the simple replace would mess up a line like: <img scr="./image/picture.jpg">This is a nice image of something.. Would turn into <img scr="./<span style="background:#FF0000">image</span>/picture.jpg">This is a nice <span style="background:#FF0000">image</span> of something.. And that doesn't look nice in any browser.. <thomas/> > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Tifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 16. august 2002 22:49 > To: ActiveServerPages > Subject: Re: Google Highlight > > > If you have the text that's going to be output, replace matching > terms like such (this is VERY simple - it doesn't take into account > the fact that the term may appear inside a link, etc): > > strText = "your text that will be output" > > Response.Write REPLACE(strText, "your", "<span style=""background: > #FF0000'"">your</span>") > > Of course, you'd make the word "your" dynamic and probably > wouldn't choose > such an ugly bg color, but you get the point... > > Chris Tifer > http://www.emailajoke.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas V. Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ActiveServerPages" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:26 AM > Subject: Google Highlight > > > > Sory for the perhaps OT here, but I have failed to accomplish this > > serverside. > > > > Anyone who use the Google toolbar for IE knows, when you > hit the button > > "Highlight" the words you have searched for, is getting > highlighted and > > easy to spot. > > > > You kan do a bit by the same by presseing CTRL+F, which you > could trick > > client-side by some javascript. > > > > But how can I do something similar - that is to highligt > some text on a > > webpage? > > > > </thomas> > > --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
