2005 Weekly Announcements: Sunday December 25, 2005

tag, // like this: // //var referrer = document.referrer; if (!referrer) { return false; } var queryPrefix = "q="; var startPos = referrer.toLowerCase().indexOf(queryPrefix); if ((startPos < 0) || (startPos + queryPrefix.length == referrer.length)) { return false; } var endPos = referrer.indexOf("&", startPos); if (endPos < 0) { endPos = referrer.length; } var queryString = referrer.substring(startPos + queryPrefix.length, endPos); // fix the space characters queryString = queryString.replace(/%20/gi, " "); queryString = queryString.replace(/\+/gi, " "); // remove the quotes (if you're really creative, you could search for the // terms within the quotes as phrases, and everything else as single terms) queryString = queryString.replace(/%22/gi, ""); queryString = queryString.replace(/\"/gi, ""); return highlightSearchTerms(queryString, false); } /* * This function is just an easy way to test the highlightGoogleSearchTerms * function. */ function testHighlightGoogleSearchTerms() { var referrerString = "http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript%20highlight&start=0"; referrerString = prompt("Test the following referrer string:", referrerString); return highlightGoogleSearchTerms(referrerString); } 2005 Weekly Announcements: Sunday December 25, 2005