A one-line solution to highlighting search matches
Read OriginalThe article details a developer's journey to implement search term highlighting on a blog. After exploring complex solutions, they discovered a concise one-line method using JavaScript's String.replace() with a regex and a function to wrap matches in <mark> HTML tags. It explains the replace() method's capabilities and notes a key limitation: the solution only works with plain text, not pre-existing HTML.
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