My name is Edward Tanguay. I'm an American software and web developer living and working in Berlin, Germany.


A simple jquery search machine for a web page This example shows how easy it is with JQuery to put a little form on the page that allows a user to search for a keyword which highlights that keyword on the page. ![]()
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <head> <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> google.load('jquery', '1.4.2'); google.setOnLoadCallback(function() { $('#searchButton').click(function() { $('p').removeClass('highlight'); $('p:contains("' + $('#searchText').val() + '")').addClass('highlight'); }); }); </script> <style> p { color: brown; } p.highlight { background-color: orange; } body { background-color: beige; } </style> </head> <body> <input id="searchText" value="second" /> <button id="searchButton">Search</button> <p>This is the first entry.</p> <p>This is the second entry.</p> <p>This is the third entry.</p> <p>This is the fourth entry.</p> </body> </html> |
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