React Native Highlight Words

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

Check out a demo using Exponent.

Installation

Using npm:

npm i --save react-native-highlight-words

Usage

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

import Highlighter from 'react-native-highlight-words';

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

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

Props

| Property | Type | Required? | Description | |:----------------|:--------------|:---------:|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | autoEscape | Boolean | | Escape characters which are meaningful in regular expressions | | highlightStyle | Object | | Styles applied to highlighted text | | 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 | | style | Object | | Styles applied to the text wrapper | | textToHighlight | String | ✓ | Text to highlight matches in |

License

MIT License - fork, modify and use however you want.