# Highlighting words in text

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/highlighting-words-in-text/125114>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 5, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/highlighting-words-in-text/125114 "2008-01-05T18:23:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![giga](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b9bd4f/32.png) [@giga](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giga)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/highlighting-words-in-text/125114/1 "2008-01-05T18:23:05Z")

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If I have a string: @tmp = “This is a test string 1 2 3 testing…”  
and I want to higlight a string “test” when I show it on a page, so how  
I can do it?

Result shold be like this: “This is a **test** string 1 2 3  
**test** ing”

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**Author:** ![giga](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b9bd4f/32.png) [@giga](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giga)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/highlighting-words-in-text/125114/2 "2008-01-05T18:33:19Z")

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\<%= highlight “your text”, [“test”], “ **\1** ” %\>

See the ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper#highlight method. 🙂

–Jeremy

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**Author:** ![giga](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b9bd4f/32.png) [@giga](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giga)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/highlighting-words-in-text/125114/3 "2008-01-05T20:02:46Z")

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Jeremy McAnally wrote:

> See the ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper#highlight method. 🙂

Sorry 🙂 Thanks!