Highlighter

July 8, 2026 · View on GitHub

Awesome Version Carthage Compatible License: MIT Build Status Platform Swift 6.0

Updates

See CHANGELOG for details

Intoduction

đź–Ť Highlight whatever you want! Highlighter will magically find UI objects such as UILabel, UITextView, UITexTfield, UIButton in your UITableViewCell or other Class.

See YNSearch for advanced usage

demo

Requirements

Highlighter is written in Swift 6. Compatible with iOS 13.0+. Supports Swift Package Manager, CocoaPods, and Carthage.

Installation

Swift Package Manager

In Xcode, choose File ▸ Add Package Dependencies… and enter:

https://github.com/younatics/Highlighter.git

Or add it to your Package.swift:

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/younatics/Highlighter.git", from: "2.0.0")
]

Cocoapods

Highlighter is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'Highlighter'

Carthage

github "younatics/Highlighter"

Usage

You can search any UIView using view.highlight(text:normal:highlight:type:) It will search subviews for the provided text and highlight them using the attributes provided.

To search all supported subview use:

view.highlight(text: "Foo", normal: normalAttributes, highlight: highlightedAttributes)

or you can limit the search to a single type using:

view.highlight(text: "Foo", normal: normalAttributes, highlight: highlightedAttributes, type: UIButton.self)

Examples

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
guard let cell = self.ynSearchListViewDelegate?.ynSearchListView(tableView, cellForRowAt: indexPath) as? SearchViewCell else { return UITableViewCell() }
            
  if let changedText = ynSearchTextFieldText {
    cell.highlight(text: changedText, normal: nil, highlight: [NSBackgroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.yellow])
    }
  return cell
  }
}

References

Please tell me or make pull request if you use this library in your application :)

MotionBook

YNSearch

Author

younatics Twitter

License

Highlighter is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.