Highlight searched word/phrase in girdview or textbox

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if user search a word in database then the result will come in gridview or textbox.
now i want to highlight searched text (specific text) into gridview or textbox.
I am using windows Formm.

Posted 30-Sep-13 22:24pm

Muhamad Faizan Khan

Updated 1-Oct-13 5:38am

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Pete O'Hanlon 1-Oct-13 10:23am

What technology are you using here? ASP.NET? ASP MVC? WinForms? Silverlight? WPF? The answer you get will depend largely on the technology - plus, choose whether it's a textbox or grid view - the solution is different depending on which one.

Muhamad Faizan Khan 1-Oct-13 11:39am

Windows Form

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 1-Oct-13 11:47am

What have you tried?

Muhamad Faizan Khan 1-Oct-13 11:49am

nothing no idea about it ! only know how to search a text in Database

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 1-Oct-13 11:55am

Please check - Highlight Color for particular cells in DataGridView[^].

Is it what you need?

Muhamad Faizan Khan 1-Oct-13 12:05pm

i dont want to highlight particular cell only want to highlight some text i mean searched text that user searched

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johannesnestler · Answer 1 · 2013-10-01T10:08:00

Hi Muhamed Faizan Khan,

I fear you will have to write some code.

Some hints:

Think about what "highlight" means for you (change ForeColor?)
Use RichTextBox instead of TextBox - better "highlighting" capabillities - how would you do that on a TextBox?

If I guess right, it could be difficult to highlight specific text (parts of a cell) within a GridView - OwnerDrawing is nothing for beginners...

Next question: how to find the texts to highlight in the controls (maybe calcualte a list of start-end indices for all involved controls (text-parts)?

If you got that - just apply your "highlighting" code to all found text-parts.

And of course - Create a "reset" function for easy "un-highlight".

Happy coding!

Kind Regards

Johannes