[thelist] Highlighting a keyword within posting retrieved

[Hassan Schroeder]

On 4/21/07, klute <soundres9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I run a job search site and am thinking of adding a
> feature where whenever a user searches for a job by a
> keyword, each resulting posting will have that keyword
> highlighted. I have no idea how to approach this
> "highlighting" trick. Any pointers?

java.util.regex.* is probably the bulk of it :-)

Either process in the view or post-process in a Filter, but either way
you'll have to wrap the keyword in an additional element (SPAN or
EM or whatever) and style that.

HTH,
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Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder at gmail.com