Question

If i have text some thing like below..

var str="Hi, How are you";

If i want to highlight this text in the below HTML in a single attempt rather than spliting it into an array. In document if my HTML is like below..

<div> Hi, <span>How are</span> you</div>

Please help me on this..I want to search the sentence in document and want to add highlighted effect to it.

Answer 1

Assuming all the sentences are wrapped in a div you can try this.

$('div').filter(function(){
   return $.trim($(this).text()).toLowerCase() === "hi, how are you";
}).addClass('highlight');

Define the highlight class in your css and give an appropriate background color.