Highlight the searched text in UITableView using UISearchBar

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Using UISearchBar searching text in UITableView. I just want to know how to highlight searched text. Highlighting could be make text bold or change text color.

E.g. If I'm searching text "Stack" using UISearchBar in UITableView which contains a row with string "Stackoverflow", now my search result should appear this way "Stackoverflow".

Thanks in advance.. Happy coding..

Looks like exact problem is solved at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2454067/display-html-text-in-uitextview — Saran, Sep 26 '11 at 13:37
They are using UIWebView, how do I accomplish this using UITableView — Kuldeep Shige, Sep 27 '11 at 14:54

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '11 at 13:31

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Usually it's enough to filter cells in UITableView conforming your search term. Hope you understand how that could be arranged. If you want highlight search term in a cell, your cell needs to support such highlight, than you could highlight calling something like [mycell highlightText:searchBar.text]. Ready cells don't support such highlight, you need to build your custom cell which will do that.

answered Sep 26 '11 at 13:31

Valeriy Van

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I understood the concerns,here I'm building custom cell but I don't know the way to highlight search string. Thanks for help.. – Kuldeep Shige Sep 27 '11 at 14:52

Highlight the searched text in UITableView using UISearchBar

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