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Anonymous
August 18, 2007
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highlight search result

  • August 18, 2007
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have asp search page with multiple search forms. searching access data base. on the results page, i want the search values to be highlighted (color:red).
so when a user enters 'rub'

the results would be Rubbermaid with the Rub appearing in red.

thanks for any help or point me in the right direction
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replace function is correct. using VBScript. thanks for your help.

'here is what i ended up with'
<%

Function HilightResults(sDataValue, sSearchString)
HilightResults = Replace(UCase(sDataValue), UCase(sSearchString), "<span style='color:red;'>" & UCase(sSearchString) & "</span>")
End Function

%>
'and this is the td span'
<td class="WADAResultsTableCell"><%=HilightResults((WADALABEL1.Fields.Item("Item_number").Value), Request("S_Item_number"))%></td>

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Anonymous
Correct answer
August 20, 2007
replace function is correct. using VBScript. thanks for your help.

'here is what i ended up with'
<%

Function HilightResults(sDataValue, sSearchString)
HilightResults = Replace(UCase(sDataValue), UCase(sSearchString), "<span style='color:red;'>" & UCase(sSearchString) & "</span>")
End Function

%>
'and this is the td span'
<td class="WADAResultsTableCell"><%=HilightResults((WADALABEL1.Fields.Item("Item_number").Value), Request("S_Item_number"))%></td>
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Newsgroup_User
Inspiring
August 18, 2007
David Powers wrote:
> jim balthrop wrote:
>> have asp search page with multiple search forms. searching access
>> data base. on the results page, i want the search values to be
>> highlighted (color:red).
>
> I don't know the ASP syntax for doing it, but you need to use a string
> method to replace the search term with a span tag containing a CSS class
> wrapped around the term. You get the search term from the query string.
> In pseudocode:
>
> highlighted = replace(search_term, '<span
> class="highlight">'+search_term+'</span>, result);
> display highlighted;
>
> In PHP, you would use str_replace(). I'm sure ASP has a similar string
> function/method.

replace function in VBScript and, IIRC, the same in JavaScript
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Newsgroup_User
Inspiring
August 18, 2007
jim balthrop wrote:
> have asp search page with multiple search forms. searching access data base.
> on the results page, i want the search values to be highlighted (color:red).

I don't know the ASP syntax for doing it, but you need to use a string
method to replace the search term with a span tag containing a CSS class
wrapped around the term. You get the search term from the query string.
In pseudocode:

highlighted = replace(search_term, '<span
class="highlight">'+search_term+'</span>, result);
display highlighted;

In PHP, you would use str_replace(). I'm sure ASP has a similar string
function/method.

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