A React Native Module that Hightlights Given Words in A Text

React Native Highlight Text

React Native component used to highlight words within a larger body of text. This is a fork of react-native-highlight-words which is a port of react-highlight-words.

Installation

Using npm:

yarn add @bam.tech/react-native-highlight-text

Usage

To use it, just provide it with an array of search terms and a body of text to highlight:

import HighlighText from 'r@bam.tech/react-native-highlight-text';

<HighlighText
  highlightStyle={{backgroundColor: 'yellow'}}
  searchWords={['and', 'or', 'the']}
  textToHighlight='The dog is chasing the cat. Or perhaps they're just playing?'
/>

And the HighlighText component will highlight all occurrences of search terms within the text:

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Props

Property Type Required? Description
autoEscape Boolean Escape characters which are meaningful in regular expressions
style Object Styles applied to the text wrapper
sanitize Function Process each search word and text to highlight before comparing (eg remove accents) signature (text: string): string
searchWords Array Array of search words
textToHighlight String Text to highlight matches in
highlightStyle Object Styles applied to highlighted text
secondarySearchWords Array X Array of search words for a secondary kind of highlights
secondaryHighlightStyle Object X Styles applied to the text wrapper for a secondary kind of highlights
secondaryTextToHighlight String X Text to highlight matches in for a secondary kind of highlights

Download Details:

Author: bamlab

GitHub: https://github.com/bamlab/react-native-highlight-text

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A React Native Module that Hightlights Given Words in A Text
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