highlight selected

gistfile1.txt

function highlightSelected() {
    var sel = window.getSelection();

    var div = document.createElement("div");
    div.className = "highlighted";

    if (sel.rangeCount) {
        var range = sel.getRangeAt(0).cloneRange();
        try {
            range.surroundContents(div);
        } catch(err) {
            alert("multiple tag highlighting not supported. (yet)");
        }

        sel.removeAllRanges();
        sel.addRange(range);
    }

    $('.highlighted').click(function() {
        var html = $(this).html()
        $(this).after(html);
        $(this).remove();
    });
}