What I\'m looking for:
I\'m working on creating an easy way for a user to search a list of people, and for results to instantly display below the search field. The resul
Split the words in the search string with a regex like
searchString.split(/\W/);
and do a OR search over each of the words in the resulting array.
Updated fiddle
var searchStrings = str_needle.split(/\W/);
for (var i = 0, len = searchStrings.length; i < len; i++) {
var currentSearch = searchStrings[i].toUpperCase();
if (currentSearch !== "") {
nameDivs = document.getElementsByClassName("name");
for (var j = 0, divsLen = nameDivs.length; j < divsLen; j++) {
if (nameDivs[j].textContent.toUpperCase().indexOf(currentSearch) !== -1) {
nameDivs[j].style.display = "block";
}
}
}
}
One further approach, is as follows:
function gid(a_id) {
return document.getElementById(a_id);
}
function close_all() {
// applies the Array.prototype.forEach() method to the array-like nodeList
// returned by document.querySelectorAll() (the string passed to which finds all
// elements with an id that starts with ('^=') the string 'user_':
[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('[id^=user_]'), function(div) {
// 'div' is the array element (the node) itself:
div.style.display = 'none';
});
}
function find_my_div() {
close_all();
// getting the trimmed lower-cased string from the input element, split
// on white-space characters to create an array:
var keywords = gid('edit_search').value.trim().toLowerCase().split(/\s+/),
// as above, selecting all elements whose id starts with the string 'user_':
haystack = document.querySelectorAll('[id^="user_"]'),
// working out whether text is accessed by node.textContent, or node.innerText:
textProp = 'textContent' in document.body ? 'textContent' : 'innerText',
// an initialised variable, for later:
userWords,
// filters the haystack (the divs whose id starts with 'user_'):
found = [].filter.call(haystack, function(user) {
// assigns the lower-cased string to the created-variable:
userWords = user[textProp].toLowerCase();
// returns those div elements whose text contains some of
// the words returned, earlier, as the keywords:
return keywords.some(function (word) {
return userWords.indexOf(word) > -1;
});
});
// iterates over the found elements, and shows them:
[].forEach.call(found, function(user) {
user.style.display = 'block';
});
}
<body>
<input type="text" id="edit_search" onkeyup="javascript: find_my_div();">
<input type="button" onClick="javascript: find_my_div();" value="Find">
<script>
function gid(a_id) {
return document.getElementById(a_id);
}
function close_all() {
[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('[id^=user_]'), function(div) {
div.style.display = 'none';
});
}
function find_my_div() {
close_all();
var keywords = gid('edit_search').value.trim().toLowerCase().split(/\s+/),
haystack = document.querySelectorAll('[id^="user_"]'),
textProp = 'textContent' in document.body ? 'textContent' : 'innerText',
userWords,
found = [].filter.call(haystack, function(user) {
userWords = user[textProp].toLowerCase();
return keywords.some(function (word) {
return userWords.indexOf(word) > -1;
});
});
console.log(found);
[].forEach.call(found, function(user) {
user.style.display = 'block';
});
}
</script>
<div id="user_0" style="display:none">Andy Daulton
<br/>Owner Nissan
<br/>
<br/>
</div>
<div id="user_1" style="display:none">Doug Guy
<br/>Bug Collector
<br/>
<br/>
</div>
<div id="user_2" style="display:none">Sam Hilton
<br/>Famous Celebrity in Hollywood
<br/>
<br/>
</div>
<div id="user_3" style="display:none">Don Grey
<br/>Old man
<br/>
<br/>
</div>
<div id="user_4" style="display:none">Amy Hinterly
<br/>Cook
<br/>
<br/>
</div>
<div id="user_5" style="display:none">Gary Doll
<br/>Racecar Driver
<br/>
<br/>
</div>
<div id="user_6" style="display:none">Tod Akers
<br/>Football Player
<br/>
<br/>
</div>
<div id="user_7" style="display:none">Greg Barkley
<br/>Interior designer
<br/>
<br/>
</div>
<div id="user_8" style="display:none">Alen Simmons
<br/>8th place winner
<br/>
<br/>
</div>
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