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🧠How to Highlight Search Text in Real-Time Using HTML, CSS & JavaScript

In this quick and fun project, you’ll learn how to highlight matching text as a user types into a search bar — using just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (no frameworks!). This is a must-have effect for blogs, FAQs, product filters, and any searchable content on your website.

🎯 What You'll Learn

  • Real-time user input handling with JavaScript
  • Using RegEx to match and highlight words
  • Basic DOM manipulation techniques
  • Styling dynamic elements with CSS

💡 Use Cases
✅ Blog or article search
✅ Product listings
✅ FAQ sections
✅ Portfolio filtering
✅ Any real-time content filtering!

📽️ Watch the Full Tutorial
🔗 Click here to watch

👩‍💻 Tech Stack

  • HTML (structure)
  • CSS (styling)
  • JavaScript (logic + interactivity)

No libraries. No frameworks. Just clean vanilla code — perfect for beginners.

📌 Final Tip
If you're new to JavaScript or looking to practice DOM manipulation, this is a perfect mini project to add to your portfolio or practice list.

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🏷️ Tags

javascript #webdev #beginners #frontend #css #html #tutorial #project

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