Using jQuery to highlight a character of a string on a webpage

Question

I want to use jQuery to highlight a character of a string on a webpage at an index of some value. The value is variable – one time it will be at the index of 2, and the ne

Answer 1

You can do this with HTML and CSS.

Then highlight it dynamically with CSS classes and Jquery.

$("#textholder").html("Here is some Highted text");

Then your CSS could be:

.highlight {
   display:inline-block;
   background-color:"yellow";
}

https://jsfiddle.net/aaronfranco/x3h4qnxj/1/