Highlight a substring

matteomigliore

Is possible to highlight a substring? E.g. With "Hello world!" highlight only "Hello"?

Thanks.

JoeAlbahari

Util.WordRun (true, Util.Highlight ("hello"), "world")

matteomigliore

And if the string is in the middle and appears multiple times? I've to split it and use Highlight?

JoeAlbahari

Util.WordRun (true, "start", Util.Highlight ("middle"), "end")

Or:

Util.RawHtml ("start <span class='highlight'>middle</span> end")

If this is too clumsy, would writing a helper method in My Extensions solve it for you?

matteomigliore

Ok, I obtain an error with RawHtml if the string contains < or >, for example if it starts with <.

matteomigliore

Yes it would be very useful! I did it in my extensions but for the error above it is a little bit complex.

matteomigliore

It should alse be useful to have a more tolerant Util.RawHtml method to allow dumping any HTML, also malformed or a full html.

JoeAlbahari

The whole Dump pipeline is built around XElement, so I have no way to represent malformed HTML.