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MarkText - Synonyms
Demonstrates the synonyms property, which allows highlighting synonymous terms bidirectionally. For example, searching for "one" will also highlight "1", and vice versa, based on the provided synonyms map.
Search term:
Searchable Content
Counting is easy: one, two, three, four, five. Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You can use either words or digits: one (1), two (2), three (3). This demonstrates synonyms highlighting both ways.
Source

                <h:panelGrid columns="3">
        <h:outputText value="Search term:"/>
        <p:inputText id="searchInput" value="#{synonymsMarkTextController.searchTerm}" placeholder="Enter search term">
             <p:ajax event="keyup" delay="500" update="searchContainer markText"/>
        </p:inputText>
        <p:commandButton value="Highlight" update="searchContainer markText" icon="pi pi-search"/>
    </h:panelGrid>

    <p:panel id="searchContainer" header="Searchable Content" style="margin-top: 20px">
        <h:panelGroup id="searchContent" layout="block">
            #{synonymsMarkTextController.processedText}
        </h:panelGroup>
    </p:panel>

    <pe:markText id="markText" for="searchContent" value="#{synonymsMarkTextController.searchTerm}" synonyms="#{synonymsMarkTextController.synonyms}" styleClass="marktext-highlight">
        <p:ajax event="mark" listener="#{synonymsMarkTextController.onHighlight}" update="messages"/>
    </pe:markText>
            
Components and more
Documentation pe:markText
Attributes (move mouse over the names to see data types)
Name Description
accuracySearch accuracy level: 'partially', 'complementarily', or 'exactly'.Default is partially.
acrossElementsSearch across element boundaries.Default is false.
bindingAn EL expression referring to a server side UIComponent instance in a backing bean.Default is generated.
caseSensitiveWhether the search should be case sensitive.Default is false.
diacriticsWhether accented and unaccented letters are treated as the same during matching.Default is true.
excludeArray of exclusion selectors. Matches inside these elements will be ignored.
forSearch expression to resolve the target component to search within.
idUnique identifier of the component in a namingContainer.Default is generated.
iframesWhether matching should include same-origin iframe documents.Default is false.
iframesTimeoutMaximum wait time in milliseconds for iframe loading.Default is 5000.
renderedBoolean value to specify the rendering of the component, when set to false component will not be rendered.Default is true.
separateWordSearchWhether to match each word separately.Default is true.
styleInline style of the component.
styleClassStyle class of the component.
synonymsMap of synonyms for term matching.
valueSearch terms to highlight. Can be a string or array of strings.
widgetVarName of the client-side widget.
wildcardsWildcard matching mode: 'disabled'|'enabled'|'withSpaces'.Default is disabled.
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