HTML_HIGHLIGHT Function

Allows the use of all the basic textual highlighting elements in HTML.

Usage

html_text = HTML_HIGHLIGHT(str, tag)

Input Parameters

str—The string or array of strings to be highlighted.

tag—The highlighting tag or array of tags. If tag is scalar but str is a list of strings, then tag is applied around each of the items in str. If tag is an array, it must be the same length as str. This parameter is the string inside the HTML angle brackets: e.g., B elicits <B>...</B> (for boldfacing).

Keywords

Safe—Handles HTML special characters (see HTML_SAFE).

Returned Value

html_text—String (array) of HTML text tagged with highlighting tags.

Discussion

HTML_HIGHTLIGHT supports both physical (e.g., ‘U’, ‘B’, etc.) and logical (e.g., ‘CITE’, ‘CODE’, etc.) text highlighting. The flexibility of the function also allows you to take advantage of any extension to standard formatting used by a particular browser.

Example

HTML_OPEN
HTML_PARAGRAPH, $
   HTML_HIGHLIGHT('Example citation text.', 'CITE', /Safe)
HTML_CLOSE

See Also

HTML_BLOCK, HTML_HEADING, HTML_LIST, HTML_OPEN, HTML_PARAGRAPH, HTML_SAFE, HTML_TABLE

For a complete listing of HTML text highlighting elements, see HTML Sourcebook, Second Edition, by Ian S. Graham, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996, New York, p. 251.