Search keyword highlight in ASP.Net

Question

I am outputting a list of search results for a given string of keywords, and I want any matching keywords in my search results to be highlighted. Each word should be wrapped in

Answer 1

Use the jquery highlight plugin.

For highlighting it at server side

protected override void Render( HtmlTextWriter writer )
{
    StringBuilder html = new StringBuilder();
    HtmlTextWriter w = new HtmlTextWriter( new StringWriter( html ) );

    base.Render( w );

    html.Replace( "lorem", "lorem" );

    writer.Write( html.ToString() );
}

You can use regular expressions for advanced text replacing.

You can also write the above code in an HttpModule so that it can be re used in other applications.