Accuracy: exactly + accrossElements: true doesn't work with <br> delimited text

Hi, Mark.js doesn’t highlight words which ends with <br> tag: For example, <p>Some one<br>Some two</p>. “Some one” will not be found, when options contains both of accuracy: exactly and accrossElements: true.

As I understood, when you’re looking accross elements, you concatenate text nodes of dom element tree, and than try to match accuracy exactly regexp /(^|\s)({{ word }})(?=$|\s)/gim. So previous example will search matches in string “Some oneSome two” and will not match.

Steps to reproduce

JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/bw7ghxd0/2/

Thanx.

[julmot]

Would it be possible to handle the closing tag of each block-level element as a space

Yes, this would be the solution for the issue. However, it needs a rewrite of the internal DOM iterator and therefore will take some time. The option to differentiate between block elements and non-block elements won’t make it easier… However, I’ll come back to this.

[J3r0m]

Hi @julmot,

I’m the developer of Highlightall extension, which makes use of your excellent library to highlight text upon selection. If there’s still a chance that this issue be fixed in a future release, it would be decisive to add a “Match whole words” option in the extension (which I was about to add but I can’t do it with this issue). Thanks anyway for the great job.

Jerome