mark text in a string with regular expression but exclude links

Question

I have a text and I want when a user search for a term, the term becomes highlighted by wrapping the term with mark tag.

javascript to wrap the match term:

Answer 1

Use a negative lookahead to add an additional constraint that the term is not followed by a > without first having a <. This will effectively exclude matches within <...> markup.

var pattern = new RegExp('('+term+')(?![^<]*>)', 'gi');

https://jsfiddle.net/qdk80o0k/