How to search and highlight the string using jQuery?

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Question by Rajasekhar K

How to search the word and highlighting using jquery, can you please help,
here is my code

$("div:icontains('look')").css("background-color", "yellow");

I need to search and highlight the only ‘look’ in the div.

<div>
     On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. 
</div>

Thanks, Rajasekhar.

Answer 1

Your selector is wrong, it should be :contains rather than :icontains, with that correction, you code works and here is a demo of that.

Or, you can try using the highlight plugin its quite easy.

A simple example:

$("div:contains('look')").highlight('look').show();