10 jQuery Text Highlighter Plugins

This article was updated in May 2016 to reflect the current status of the text highlighting plugin.

Many applications or websites allow users to search for specific terms. To speed up this process, provide a good user experience, and help users find what they are searching for, you can dynamically highlight these search terms on a given page.

The following list is a list of 10 jQuery text highlighting plugins that can be used to achieve this purpose.

Key Points

• This article lists 10 jQuery text highlighting plugins that can be used to dynamically highlight search terms on web pages to improve user experience.
• The listed plugins include: keyword highlighting plugin mark.js based on cross-browser unit tests; a simple and compact highlight plugin; a customizable but unmaintained jquery.highlight plugin; for highlighting custom regular expressions jQuery.highlightRegex plugin; simple highlight_words function without custom options; jcOnPageFilter plugin for filtering lists based on search terms; SearchHighlight plugin for defining custom highlight categories; jquery for animation of text highlight elements -highlighter plugin; TextHighlighter plugin for highlighting selected text and customizing colors; and jQuery highlightTextarea plugin for highlighting text inside textarea elements.
• This article also answers common questions about jQuery text highlighting plugins, such as how to install and customize the plugin, its browser compatibility, how to remove highlighting, and its impact on page performance.

1. mark.js A keyword highlighting plugin for search terms or custom regular expressions written in ES6, based on dozens of cross-browser unit testing and code quality monitoring. It is designed to meet a variety of use cases and includes all the options in the following text highlighting plugin and more (e.g. diacritics, synonyms, and iframes).

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2. highlight A very simple and lightweight text highlighting plugin that sets the foundation for many branches. Since it does not allow any customization, its advantage is that the file size is very small (1.4 KB).

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3. jquery.highlight A branch of highlight (point 2 above), adding basic options to specify custom element and class names and caseSensitive and wordsOnly options. Unfortunately, this plugin is not maintained (last committed in 2010, no branch reintegration) and has a disable issue, so it should be used with caution.

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4. jQuery.highlightRegex Another highlight (point 2 above)-based plugin for highlighting custom regular expressions. Like jquery.highlight (point 3 above), it provides basic options for specifying custom elements and class names. Other options can be added manually to custom regular expressions—for example, the "i" flag to ignore case.

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5. highlight_words A simple jQuery highlight function without any customization options, just like highlight (point 2 above). You should note that it does not provide functions that remove highlights and is not convenient for searching in nested child elements. However, it does provide a good foundation for further implementations—although it does not contain permission information.

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6. jcOnPageFilter This plugin allows you to filter lists with search terms and highlight found matches. It has an option to enable case-sensitive searches, but does not contain permission information.

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7. SearchHighlight Another text highlighting plugin that provides options to define custom highlighting classes; a class suffix; an exact option to find such as exact matches and highlight query parameters from search engines (this has been No longer possible).

   This plugin was written in 2006 and has not been updated for a long time and does not contain license information, so be cautious when using it.

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8. jquery-highlighter This plugin allows you to animate the highlighted elements of the self-wrapped text by implementing the necessary CSS animation settings for you. Of course, you can also write your own CSS if you like.

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9. TextHighlighter With this plugin, you can highlight selected text with custom colors, or just observe the user-selected text. Since this plugin is no longer maintained, you should use it with caution.

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10. jQuery highlightTextarea Since the textarea element cannot render HTML (just like any of the above plugins will be generated for matches), this plugin allows you to highlight text inside the textarea element. It offers options like caseSensitive and color and is built on some unit tests, but there are a lot of unsolved issues and it doesn't offer highlight removal.

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Conclusion

Okay, this is my current list of top ten jQuery text highlighting plugins. If you have any experience with these plugins (good or bad!), or if you know of other text highlighting plugins worth mentioning, let us know in the comments!

Frequently Asked Questions about jQuery Text Highlight Plugin

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