Is it possible to hightlight one word in the text?

Question

I want to highlight one word of a sentence which is defined in xxx.strings file, such as highlight "Allow" in sentence "Please click Allow".

A `.strings` file is for localization and is a poor choice to store a list of words. You better use plain text and split by line, or plist file — Code Different, Jul 19 '18 at 04:09
You can also use HTML in your strings to highlight text. Then you read it into a NSAttributedString using the init?(html:.... initialiser. — drekka, Jul 19 '18 at 04:30
Possible duplicate of [UITextView highlight all matches using swift](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25525171/uitextview-highlight-all-matches-using-swift) — Venk, Jul 19 '18 at 05:12
Possible duplicate of [Making text bold using attributed string in swift](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28496093/making-text-bold-using-attributed-string-in-swift) — Sharad Chauhan, Jul 19 '18 at 05:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '18 at 05:39

yes you can use NSAttributed String to apply different attributes to your string like

underline

    let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: textString)
    let range = (self.text! as NSString).range(of: "your string you want to highlight")
    attributedString.addAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.styleSingle.rawValue,NSAttributedStringKey.underlineColor : .white], range: range)
    yourlabel.attributedText = attributedString

change string color(forground color)

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: textString)
    let range = (self.text! as NSString).range(of: "your string you want to highlight")
    attributedString.addAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor : UIColor.red], range: range)
    yourlabel.attributedText = attributedString

change string color(background color)

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: textString)
    let range = (self.text! as NSString).range(of: "your string you want to highlight")
    attributedString.addAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.backgroundColor : UIColor.red], range: range)
    yourlabel.attributedText = attributedString

change font

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: textString)
    let range = (self.text! as NSString).range(of: "your string you want to highlight")
    attributedString.addAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.font : fontyouwant], range: range)
    yourlabel.attributedText = attributedString

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '18 at 05:17

Hello please refer below method:-

func underline() {
    if let textString = self.text {
        let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: textString)
        let range = (self.text! as NSString).range(of: "your highlighted string")
        attributedString.addAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.underlineColor : .white], range: range)
        attributedText = attributedString
    }
}

hope it will help you, Thank you.

Is it possible to hightlight one word in the text?

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