Highlight a row in a table based on a search string using jQuery

February 28, 2009

Highlight a row in a table based on a search string using jQuery

Saturday, February 28, 2009 Posted by Suprotim Agarwal
Labels: jQuery

I had recently posted on changing the border color when the user hovers over a table. A user mailed me back asking if it was possible to highlight only a cell based on a search string passed. Here's how to do so:

The trick is to use selectors http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head >
<title>Search and highlight Border Color on Hover</title>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $(".someClass").hover(
function() {
    $("td:contains('Row 1, Column 1')").css("border", "Solid Brown 1px");
},
function() {
    $("td:contains('Row 1, Column 1')").css("border", "");
});
    });
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" >
<table id="tblOuter" class="someClass" style="width:50%">
<tr>
<td>Row 0, Column 0</td>
<td>Row 0, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 0, Column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 0</td>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 0</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Live Demo

So when the user hovers over the table, only the cell with Row 1 Column 1 text gets highlighted. The text has been hardcoded here but can easily be replaced to accept the value from a textbox.

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Suprotim Agarwal, ASP.NET Architecture MVP works as an Architect Consultant and provides consultancy on how to design and develop Web applications.

Suprotim is also the founder and primary contributor to DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He has also written an EBook 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls.

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comments

2 Responses to "Highlight a row in a table based on a search string using jQuery"

Anonymous said...

August 18, 2009 5:35 AM

WAY TO NOT POST A DEMO OR AN EXAMPLE I WILL USE THE MAGIC POWER OF IMAGINATION
Suprotim Agarwal said...

August 18, 2009 6:24 AM

Thanks for your comment. A link to the demo has been added