React Native Highlight Words

React Native component used to highlight words within a larger body of text. This is a port of react-highlight-words.

Check out a demo using Exponent.

Installation

Using npm:

npm i --save react-native-highlight-words

Usage

To use it, just provide it with an array of search terms and a body of text to highlight:

import Highlighter from 'react-native-highlight-words';

<Highlighter
  highlightStyle={{backgroundColor: 'yellow'}}
  searchWords={['and', 'or', 'the']}
  textToHighlight='The dog is chasing the cat. Or perhaps they're just playing?'
/>

And the Highlighter component will highlight all occurrences of search terms within the text:

Props

Property	Type	Required?	Description
autoEscape	Boolean		Escape characters which are meaningful in regular expressions
highlightStyle	Object		Styles applied to highlighted text
sanitize	Function		Process each search word and text to highlight before comparing (eg remove accents); signature (text: string): string
searchWords	Array	✓	Array of search words
style	Object		Styles applied to the text wrapper
textToHighlight	String	✓	Text to highlight matches in

License

MIT License - fork, modify and use however you want.