Underline search results

[Antonello Torzillo]

Hi,
I have a question about the possibility to underline ( or give it some styles ) the words that result by search. I tried all methods seen online ( I wouldn’t like using plugins if it is possible! ) but works only on title ( the_title ). on excerpt ( the_excerpt ) don’t work. Have you any ideas to do this?

Thanks in advance,
Antonello

I put this code in function.php:

function highlight_results($text){

if(is_search()){
$sr = get_query_var(‘s’);
$keys = explode(” “,$sr);
$text = preg_replace(‘/(‘.implode(‘|’, $keys) .’)/iu’, ‘<strong class=”search-term”>’.$sr.’‘, $text);
}

return $text;
}
add_action(‘the_excerpt’, ‘highlight_results’);
add_action(‘the_title’, ‘highlight_results’);

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Not understanding exactly what you are trying to achieve.
Do you have any example?

-Rui

[Antonello Torzillo]

Hi Rui,
Thanks for the fast answer.
Yes, I can upload an image. As you can see, the search results are underlined only on titles. I would like the same result for the excerpt. I read online that the code works but not in my case, and i don’t understand why. If you can tell me something about that I’m grateful for help.

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[Kyle – SUPPORT]

So you want to underline all instances of ‘paypal’?

– Kyle

[Antonello Torzillo]

Hi,
yes, exactly.

Antonello

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

That wouldn’t be possible, to apply css to elements they have to have an individual class, search results do not get assigned an individual class for the words you search, so it’s not possible to apply css to them

– Kyle