Highlight keywords and add colors to your text

by React

react-marker

crayon Highlight keywords and add colors to your text

Install

npm install react-marker

This package also depends on React, so make sure you've already installed it.

Demo

Usage

Highlighting keywords

To highlight keywords automatically in your text, use Keywords component. Here is an example -

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'

import {Keywords} from 'react-marker'

const TEXT = `
Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make complex UIs.

Since component logic is written in JavaScript instead of templates, you can easily pass rich data through your app and keep state out of the DOM.
`

class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Keywords
        text={TEXT}
        maxKeywords={8}
        color="mistyrose"
      />
    )
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('container'))

This then renders to -

Highlight the text with different colors

This was inspired by Titus Wormer's work

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'

import {Highlight} from 'react-marker'

const TEXT = `
Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make complex UIs.

Since component logic is written in JavaScript instead of templates, you can easily pass rich data through your app and keep state out of the DOM.
`

class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Highlight text={TEXT} />
    )
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('container'))

This renders to -

Another example -

API

react-marker exposes only two components, Highlight and Keywords.

Components

  • Keywords

Highlight keywords in your text.

Props Default value Description
text "" Text paragraph
maxKeywords 5 Max. no of keywords to highlight
color hsl(60, 91%, 83%) Color used to highlight the keywords

  • Highlight

Highlight your text with different hue range.

Props Default value Description
text "" Text paragraph

TODO

  • [ ] Gatsby plugin

GitHub