Issues

• Pass searchIndex (index of matched searchWords) to highlightTag

  bvaughn/react-highlight-words#128 · Filter by author vincerubinetti opened on Apr 17, 2026
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• Please add forwardRef

  bvaughn/react-highlight-words#127 · Filter by author bowencool opened on Dec 30, 2025

• textToHighlight Prop doesn't maintain the spacing or newlines

  bughelp wanted
  bvaughn/react-highlight-words#80 · Filter by author julianaubrey opened on Apr 25, 2019
  2

• Adjacent active chunks are handled as a single chunk

  bughelp wanted
  bvaughn/react-highlight-words#68 · Filter by author grigasp opened on Dec 4, 2018
  2

• autoEscape=false not working

  bvaughn/react-highlight-words#65 · Filter by author hong1997 opened on Sep 26, 2018
  3

• autoEscape not working when one of the searchWords is regex

  bvaughn/react-highlight-words#64 · Filter by author mkurek opened on Sep 24, 2018
  2

• Trying to match \b (word boundary) regex results in eternal loop and out-of-memory

  bug
  bvaughn/react-highlight-words#42 · Filter by author jnachtigall opened on Feb 6, 2018
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