strangelights / highlighter

A proof of concept utility for capturing, displaying, and transporting text as it appears on a webpage.

Highlighter

Hightlighter is a proof of concept utility for capturing, displaying, and transporting text as it appears on a webpage.

Usecase: Capture text as a string via cursor hilighting and send string to server via AJAX request.

Try it out: https://strangelights.github.io/highlighter/highlighter.html

Acknowledgements: This utility was created in part using Mark S. Kolich's thorough overview outlined here: http://mark.koli.ch/use-javascript-and-jquery-to-get-use-selected-text