Highlight to Search

Customization Theme component
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:information_source: Summary Highlight text and search it quickly
:eyeglasses: Preview Theme Creator (To an example topic)
:hammer_and_wrench: Repository GitHub - NateDhaliwal/discourse-highlight-to-search · GitHub
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:open_book: New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes

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Overview

This component allows users to highlight text in posts and search for it quickly. Searches can be set to be the forum’s search, for an external search (e.g. Google).

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Settings

search url: The URL path of the search function. You can use the %{selected_text} as a placeholder.

is external: Check this if the search is external, e.g. Google.

search exact: Check this to search for exactly the selected text.

search exact character: The character to denote an exact search. Defaults to ".

include from author: For a forum-wide search, you can check this to show posts only from the post author with the selected text.

The button text and title can be edited via locales.

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nicely done Nate! :clap:

you should fill in the github repo readme file tho :wink:

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Since you don’t know the link to the topic here in the forum until it’s been approved, it always takes me a while to edit the Readme, too. I’m not always online when my topic is published, and I wait to edit the file until I know the link.

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