Let us see how to use jQuery to find/search a piece of text and highlight elements if that text is present in them.
I am a big fan of jQuery’s terse syntax and we will see an example here which searches a text as well as highlights elements, using just a single line of jQuery code.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Search Text in jQuery from DevCurry.com</title>
<style type="text/css">
div { height: 50px; width: 150px; border: 1px solid blue; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.5.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$("#btnSearch").click(function () {
$("div:contains('simple')").css("border", "4px solid blue");
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="divOne">DivOne. This is a simple looking DIV</div><br />
<div id="divTwo">DivTwo. This is another simple looking DIV</div><br />
<div id="divThree">DivThree. This is just a DIV</div><br />
<div id="divFour">DivFour. This is again a DIV</div><br />
<div id="divFive">DivFive. Yet another simple looking DIV</div><br />
<input id="btnSearch" type="button" value="Search" />
</body>
</html>
What we are doing here is use the jQuery contains selector which looks for a string of text within the selected element and any of that element's descendants. Once the divs containing the text ‘simple’ are found, they are all highlighted by giving them a 4px border – all of this using just one line of code
Note: contains() is case-sensitive
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