Highlight Words

[shapper]

Hello,

I am creating a search engine which searches keywords inside SQL
database and displays the results in a web page.

In the results web page I would like to give a grey background to the
words which were used as Keywords for the search.

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Miguel

 

[Joachim Pimiskern]

In the results web page I would like to give a grey background to the
words which were used as Keywords for the search.

In HTML you can <b
style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">colorize</b> text this way.

Regards,
Joachim

 

[Mark Rae]

I am creating a search engine which searches keywords inside SQL
database and displays the results in a web page.

In the results web page I would like to give a grey background to the
words which were used as Keywords for the search.

How can I do this?

I'm making the assumption here that you're talking about a string of HTML
here...

In which case, see here:
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/oreilly/windows/news/csharp_0101.html

Scroll down to the section about replacing all occurrences of one string
with another string.

Substitute the first argument with your search word / phrase, and the second
with that word / phrase surrounded by a <div>...</div> tag where you set the
background colour to grey.

 

[Hans Kesting]

I'm making the assumption here that you're talking about a string of HTML
here...

In which case, see here:
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/oreilly/windows/news/csharp_0101.html

Scroll down to the section about replacing all occurrences of one string with
another string.

Substitute the first argument with your search word / phrase, and the second
with that word / phrase surrounded by a <div>...</div> tag where you set the
background colour to grey.

a <span> tag would be better for "words", as this would keep the
highlighted word "inline". <block> would set it to it's own line.

Hans Kesting

 

[Mark Rae]

a <span> tag would be better for "words", as this would keep the
highlighted word "inline". <block> would set it to it's own line.

True enough - apologies...