Today I came across a really useful plugin for jQuery that allows you to highlight specific terms on your page. This can happen when the document first loads or can be triggered as part of an action (example: a link or button being clicked). The plugin works by attaching a css class that specifies a background-colour to the term specified..and the best part about this plugin? It weighs in at only 1kb for the compressed version and 2kb for the full uncompressed source. It could definitely come in useful sometime ;)

To see a demo of the plugin or download the source, click here

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