# External search box with highlighted matches > Live in [demo 69-highlighted-search](https://svgrid.com/demos/69-highlighted-search/). > Live demo: Highlighted search matches - https://svgrid.com/demos/69-highlighted-search/ ## When A search input outside the grid filters the visible rows AND highlights matched substrings inline. ## How Key API surface: - `derived visibleRows` - `custom cell snippet wraps matches in ` See the demo source for the full implementation; this recipe pins the pattern + the surface so you can copy-paste it confidently. The doc page that explains the underlying feature in depth is linked from the [recipes index](https://github.com/sv-grid/sv-grid/blob/main/docs/recipes/index.md). ## See also - [Demo 69-highlighted-search source](https://github.com/sv-grid/sv-grid/blob/main/examples/src/demos/69-highlighted-search.svelte) - [Demo 69-highlighted-search prompt sidecar](https://github.com/sv-grid/sv-grid/blob/main/examples/src/demos/prompts/69-highlighted-search.md) - drop into an LLM context window - [Recipes index](https://github.com/sv-grid/sv-grid/blob/main/docs/recipes/index.md) --- SvGrid is the Svelte 5 data grid (`npm install @svgrid/grid`, MIT). This page: https://svgrid.com/docs/recipes/external-search/ . All docs: https://svgrid.com/llms.txt