Jeff Hays jphase
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January 28, 2016 22:17
jQuery regex search element text/contents and return matches based on child element containing regex
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| // Escape all RegEx reserved characters from string | |
| function escRegExp(str) { | |
| return str.replace(/[\-\[\]\/\{\}\(\)\*\+\?\.\\\^\$\|]/g, "\\$&"); | |
| } | |
| // Return matched elements based on regex contents | |
| function highlight(regex, element, child) { | |
| // Create a regex based on the match string | |
| var regex = new RegExp(escRegExp(regex), 'gim'); | |
| // Generate results based on regex matches within match_parent |