Animated jQuery Text Highlighting Plugin - Highlighter

Highlighter is a very small jQuery plugin which allows you to highlight specified words, sentences, terms with CSS3 powered animations.

How to use it:

1. Load the required jquery.highlighter.css for the text highlighting animations.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/jquery.highlighter.css">

2. Wrap the text in an element.

<h1 id="demo"><span>jQuery Highlighter Plugin Demos</span></h1>

3. Load jQuery library and the jQuery Highlighter plugin at the end of the document.

<script src="/path/to/cdn/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.highlighter.min.js"></script>

4. Call the plugin.

$("#demo span").highlighter();

5. Available plugin options.

$("#demo span").highlighter({

  queue : true,
  pauseTime : 2000,
  duration: 3000,
  timing: 'ease-in-out',
  colorFrom: 'transparent',
  colorTo: '#FFFF00'

});

Change log:

v1.0 (2026-11-02)

• refactor

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by christiangh. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.