Search highlighting with mark.js for DataTable

[chsreedhar]

Search highlighting sounds interesting.
This behaviour allows users to find what they're searching for more faster and therefore leads to a better usability.

This feature can be added as default when searching attribute set to true for b:dataTable,

[stephanrauh]

Quick check: License is MIT, added file size is only a few KB. Let's examine it closer!

@chsreedhar Currently we're developing BootsFaces 2, which is a complete re-write of BootsFaces based on Bootstrap 4. Do you happen to know whether datatables.net is compatible to Bootstrap 4, or if there's a better alternative?

[chsreedhar]

DataTables can be integrated seamlessly with Bootstrap 4
Example

[stephanrauh]

Thanks! I didn't expect it to be so easy!

[stephanrauh]

I've uploaded a new developer snapshot of BootsFaces to Maven Central. See #369 how to get it. The implementation of the feature is finished. For some reason, the demo has a still a little bug (the datatable only accepts constant values of mark-search-results, but fails with EL expressions).

[stephanrauh]

Note that Bootstrap redefines the CSS class .mark. If you prefer the original colors instead of yellow, you need to add a CSS code snippet.

[chsreedhar]

Thanks for immediate implementation.