[Tutor] Highlighting Searched-for text

[Rick Pasotto]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 05:06:25PM -0500, Allen Schmidt wrote:
> Ok, that sorta works...
> 
> I forgot to mention that the keywords field is coming in from the form
> defined as 'tokens' so that it is a list as it gets to Python.
> 
> This is what I did with your code below in a Python script in Zope:
> colour="#FF0000"
> 
> 
> start = '<font colour="%s">' % colour
> end = '</font>'
> if keywords:
>   for words in keywords:
>     return adtext.replace(words, start+words+end)
> else:
>   return adtext
> 
> 
> If the adtext is "This is a fish dish day." and the keyword is "is", this is
> what I get:
> 
> Th<font colour="#FF0000">i</font>s <font colour="#FF0000">i</font>s a f<font
> colour="#FF0000">i</font>sh d<font colour="#FF0000">i</font>sh day.

You really ought to surround the keyword with

<span id=color1>keyword</span>

and then have a style sheet that sets the color1 id to whatever you
want.

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