: How to highlight certain words with jQuery

Question

I\'m looking for a script than can highlight a certain number of words depending on their position. example, for the following contentI want to highlight only the second, th

Answer 1

This jQuery plugin is what you're looking for:

• jQuery Highlight

It does exactly what you want, traverses the DOM TextNodes and looks for the text to search, when it find one occurrence it creates an span element.

Usage :

$('p').highlight('bibendum sem ut');