Highlight found search terms in the table.
This feature module is part of the TablePress Premium plans.
In tables with a lot of text, this feature can help discover a search term more quickly.
Feature description
Here is an example: The table is filtered for “Cisco” and highlighting the found search term in a different color.
| Last Name | First Name | Birthday | Company | Phone (Ext.) | ZIP code | Country | Balance | Points | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banks | Travis | 05/04/1969 | Apple | 200-4324 | 64655 | Italy | $61.17 | 8 | 6.6 |
| Cain | Lawrence | 05/16/1994 | IBM | 701-3108 | 98004 | United States | $54.81 | 5 | 2.5 |
| Middleton | Dennis | 01/10/1992 | 580-9501 | 80913 | Spain | $24.83 | 4 | 5.2 | |
| Valenzuela | Lunea | 01/09/1966 | Cisco | 970-8655 | 51606 | Germany | $74.07 | 7 | 3.7 |
| Burgess | Quynn | 09/24/1988 | Mozilla | 430-8943 | 78965 | France | $16.13 | 8 | 2.9 |
| Lott | Lillith | 12/10/1978 | Dell | 587-2289 | 88178 | Australia | $30.12 | 1 | 7.9 |
| Freeman | Cheyenne | 01/28/1981 | LG | 396-5473 | 14711 | Germany | $49.82 | 1 | 6.0 |
| Houston | Jorden | 05/03/1978 | Adobe | 970-1182 | 96036 | Canada | $47.31 | 2 | 1.5 |
| Harris | Merritt | 12/29/1989 | Apple | 160-5977 | 25178 | United States | $77.33 | 6 | 0.1 |
| Gregory | Brynn | 01/13/1994 | Adobe | 663-6039 | 91558 | Spain | $90.24 | 9 | 8.2 |
| Curry | Mason | 03/15/1969 | Sony | 115-4778 | 87513 | Australia | $21.68 | 5 | 6.6 |
| Holland | Alyssa | 06/25/1976 | Xerox | 704-4977 | 97921 | Canada | $50.31 | 7 | 9.5 |
| Logan | Shay | 09/13/1968 | IBM | 687-6482 | 03023 | United States | $46.39 | 8 | 7.6 |
| Moran | August | 07/04/1986 | Cisco | 651-1214 | 60737 | India | $22.64 | 1 | 7.5 |
| Vasquez | Kelsey | 03/31/1968 | Samsung | 470-7358 | 79655 | Germany | $84.05 | 3 | 4.5 |
| Stein | Lawrence | 10/15/1960 | Toshiba | 929-5407 | 36044 | Italy | $77.11 | 2 | 8.6 |
| Battle | Wylie | 01/03/1988 | 368-2276 | 37585 | Australia | $46.37 | 10 | 2.8 | |
| Booker | Logan | 12/16/1975 | Apple | 830-5701 | 22074 | United States | $40.71 | 1 | 9.0 |
| Gilbert | Chaney | 06/06/1970 | Sony | 132-5560 | 89630 | Canada | $78.45 | 9 | 1.2 |
| Buckley | Stone | 09/11/1980 | Cisco | 422-7998 | 74057 | United States | $30.01 | 2 | 7.9 |
You can of course easily adjust the highlight color to something suitable for your site or theme by using the Default Style Customizer feature module!
Usage instructions
To use these features with your tables, activate the “Search Highlighting” feature module on the “Modules” screen of TablePress Pro or TablePress Max. Then, configure the desired options in the “Search Highlighting” section on the table’s “Edit” screen.
Configuration parameters
To configure this module’s features, you can also use these configuration parameters in the “TablePress Table” block or in the Shortcode that you are using to embed the table:
| Module | Slug | Configuration parameter | Name | Description | Type | Default value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search Highlighting | datatables-searchhighlight | datatables_searchhighlight | boolean (true or false) | false |
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