The word highlighter library for Vue 2 & Vue 3.

Demo

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📦 Installation

Vue 3

yarn add vue-word-highlighter
# or
npm install vue-word-highlighter

Vue 2

powered by vue-demi.

yarn add vue-word-highlighter @vue/composition-api
# or
npm install vue-word-highlighter @vue/composition-api

If you get a Uncaught TypeError: e.defineComponent is not a function error, and it doesn't work, try this one from vue-demi

🚀 Usage

To use it, just provide it with search words to props and a body of text to default slots.

<template>
  <WordHighlighter query="vue">
    The word highlighter library for Vue 2.x Vue 3.x 💅
  </WordHighlighter>
  <!--  or
  <WordHighlighter 
    query="vue"
    textToHighlight="The word highlighter library for Vue 2.x Vue 3.x 💅"
  />
  -->
</template>

<script lang="ts">
import { defineComponent } from "vue";
import WordHighlighter from "vue-word-highlighter";

export default defineComponent({
  name: "App",
  components: {
    WordHighlighter,
  },
  setup() {
    return {};
  },
});
</script>

Output.

⚒ Details

Props

Property	Type	Required?	Description
query	String or RegExp	✓	Search words. Can be use string or regular expressions.
caseSensitive	Boolean		Whether string being searched is case sensitive. defaults to false.
diacriticsSensitive	Boolean		Whether string being searched is diacritics sensitive. defaults to false.
splitBySpace	Boolean		Whether split the string with spaces to make it a search string. If false, the string is being searched as a whole word. defaults to false. When the query is set to a RegExp, the value of splitBySpace will be set to false.
matchMode	"partial" or "exact"	If "exact", only whole words are matched. For example, searching for "Java" excludes "JavaScript". Defaults to "partial".
highlightTag	String		Type of tag to wrap around highlighted matches; defaults to mark.
highlightClass	String or Object or Array		Classes to be added to highlighted tag. Similar to class bindings in vue, it accepts Array syntax, Object syntax, or class as String.
highlightStyle	String or Object or Array		Styles to be applied to highlighted tag. Similar to style bindings in vue, it accepts Array syntax, Object syntax, or plain styling as String.
wrapperTag	String		Type of tag to wrap around whole text; defaults to span.
wrapperClass	String or Object or Array		Classes to be added to wrap around the whole tag. Similar to class bindings in vue, it accepts Array syntax, Object syntax, or class as String.
textToHighlight	String		Text to be highlight. If this is not specified, the default slot value will be used for the search.
htmlToHighlight	String		HTML to be highlighted。This value is inserted as InnerHTML. This props takes precedence over textToHighlight and slot. This props is an experimental feature that only works for Vue3.

Emits

Property	Type	Description
matches	Array	Returns matches words. This event fires when mounted and when the query and highlighted text are changed.

By using matches emit, you can know from the parent component whether it is highlighted by VueWordHighlighter or not.

Example

<template>
  <div>
    Matched word count: {{ matches.length }}
  </div>
  <WordHighlighter query="vue" @matches="(e) => { matches = e }">
    The word highlighter library for Vue 2.x Vue 3.x 💅
  </WordHighlighter>
</template>

<script lang="ts">
import { defineComponent, ref } from "vue";
import WordHighlighter from "vue-word-highlighter";

export default defineComponent({
  name: "App",
  components: {
    WordHighlighter,
  },
  setup() {
    const matches = ref([]);
    return {
      matches
    };
  },
});
</script>

📄 License

vue-word-highlighter is available under the MIT License.