Getting google search terms highlighted on your page

not sure where to post or what to ask?

[willeffects]

Sometimes when you search on google and click on a result the page you end up on inserts your search term into their search box or highlights it on their page.

What is used to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Will

[tedster]

It takes a bit of scripting - you can't do it with plain old HTML. But a server script can capture the referer string in the HTTP header, and then strip out the search terms from that string.

Then you can use CSS to highlight the terms the server split off as variables for you. In fact, our Site Search does this.

[willeffects]

Ah thank you that makes sense. So you have your backend assign a class to the terms you want to highlight?

We use php btw.

Will

[dcrombie]

It can also be done after the page has loaded - using JavaScript. I find a hybrid solution most effective - PHP to detect the search string and pass it to JavaScript which handles the highlighting.

;)

[willeffects]

Can you share the the js? Im not sure how to do that, but it seems that would be best on the server.

[dcrombie]

There are plenty of examples here [google.com] ;)