I have a search program that returns an HTML string which I display to
the user. I want to highlight the search terms. However a simple
search and replace on the HTML causes problems.
If the user searches on Georgia and I get back this:
<div style="font-name:Arial">Geo rgia, Alabama, and Louisiana</div>
It works fine:
<div style="font-name:Arial"><sp an style="backgrou nd-
color:yellow;"> Georgia</span>, Alabama, and Louisiana</div>
However if the HTML that comes back is this:
<div style="font-name:Georgia">G eorgia, Alabama, and Louisiana</div>
I get a serious problem which breaks the formatting and looks
terrible:
<div style="font-name:<span style="backgrou nd-color:yellow;"> Georgia</
span>"><span style="backgrou nd-color:yellow;"> Georgia</span>, Alabama,
and Louisiana</div>
The HTML I'm getting back is quite complex, with nested spans, style
tags, etc. I'm stuck for how to solve this problem - is there a
regular expression I can use to match chunks of non-formatting text to
replace? I have neither the time nor the resources to write a full
blown html tokenizer. 1 1389
You will probably want to use XHTML instead of HTML and use an XML parser to
do the work. You should be able to loop through text nodes and apply the
search/replace there.
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>I have a search program that returns an HTML string which I display to
the user. I want to highlight the search terms. However a simple
search and replace on the HTML causes problems.
If the user searches on Georgia and I get back this:
<div style="font-name:Arial">Geo rgia, Alabama, and Louisiana</div>
It works fine:
<div style="font-name:Arial"><sp an style="backgrou nd-
color:yellow;"> Georgia</span>, Alabama, and Louisiana</div>
However if the HTML that comes back is this:
<div style="font-name:Georgia">G eorgia, Alabama, and Louisiana</div>
I get a serious problem which breaks the formatting and looks
terrible:
<div style="font-name:<span style="backgrou nd-color:yellow;"> Georgia</
span>"><span style="backgrou nd-color:yellow;"> Georgia</span>, Alabama,
and Louisiana</div>
The HTML I'm getting back is quite complex, with nested spans, style
tags, etc. I'm stuck for how to solve this problem - is there a
regular expression I can use to match chunks of non-formatting text to
replace? I have neither the time nor the resources to write a full
blown html tokenizer. This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics |
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A year or two back I needed a search script to scan thru HTML files
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hi there!!
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