Comments on: Highlighter: A MooTools Search & Highlight Plugin

By: proglammer

proglammer — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:17:32 +0000

this seems like a great plugin, judging by the demo, but I just can’t get it working… if I use autoUnhighlight: true, when trying to search I always get the error

words is undefined

if (words.constructor === String) { words = [words]; }

which is in the unhighlight function…

in any case, it won’t even search and I don’t think I do anything wrong…

By: sepetli platform

sepetli platform — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:48:08 +0000

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thanks…

By: witold

witold — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:37:39 +0000

hi, i use the following cod to highlight / unhighlight searched word by clicking on a checkbox:

$(‘colorme’).addEvent(‘change’,function() {

if($(‘colorme’).checked==true) {
highlighter.highlight(Cookie.read(‘search_value’),’*',’highlight’); }
else { highlighter.unhighlight(Cookie.read(‘search_value’)); }

});

for some reason i get the following error

el.getParent() is null

can you tell me what’s wrong

regards, witold

By: Petar

Petar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:05:42 +0000

Hi, really great work! :D
I’ve a little suggestion for fix the problem with unhighlithing.
I put in the page an additional form such as

and then something like in the code

if( $(‘searched_word’).value )
search.unhighlight( $(‘testo_cercato’).value );
$(‘searched_word’).value = words;
search.highlight(words);

where search is a highlighter method, words the searched words taken from an input box. Probably another way wuold be this of searching an element in the page with che highlighter class, taking it value (or text content) and in the same way clearing it from the all page.
Hope it will be useful. thanks again :D

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:43:29 +0000

I see. You’ll need to implement Events on the class — I’d recommend an “onFind” event that gets fired when a match is found. Then you can direct the element to be scrolled to.

By: emse

emse — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:38:51 +0000

i have a large page where every item is posted once. i want the user to type e.g. “Nightwish” and the script should find the word and scroll down to it (and highlight)

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:35:07 +0000

What would you be trying to SmoothScroll to? The functionalities are different.

By: emse

emse — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:33:57 +0000

hey david
how can I combine this script with a smoothscroll? I’m an absolute beginner with mootools

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:43:21 +0000

rodreego: That’s a known shortcoming of the script…so far. I’ll be looking to improve it soon.

By: rodreego

rodreego — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:41:29 +0000

Hi David,

your script is really fantastic, but there is an error on it. If the string don’t match in every letters the highlight doesn’t work. Eg.: Lorem Ipsum. If I write Lore Ipsun, or Ipsun, Loren, etc. Don’t return the letters matched. Right? The scripts was that way, or it is an error?