Question

Is there an alternative to find a text in a div except

window.find(text)

This command opens the search dialog box in firefox which I would like to avoid.

My aim is to highlight certain words inside a div when searching.

Answer 1

You could use the jQuery Highlight plugin, sample usage :

$(document).highlight("word");

or

$(".div_class").hightlight("word");

This will create a DOM element (span) around the word with the class hightlight then just add the relevant CSS to highlight the word, something like

.highlight {
    background-color: #FFFF88;
}