How to have a popup after selecting text?

Question

I can\'t seem to figure this out. I have a div with some text in it. When the user selects pieces of it (totally at random, whatever they want), I want a small popup to occur

Answer 1

We've just released an jQuery plugin called highlighter.js that should allow you to do this flexibly. The code is https://github.com/huffpostlabs/highlighter.js, feel free to ask any questions on the github page.