A DOM text-selection highlight renderer
A simple and fast zero-dependencies-library to transform text-selections into serializable markings.
A DOM text-selection highlight renderer launched on June 12, 2015 with 93 votes, #461 of 3,954 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.
In plain words
Marklib is a lightweight JavaScript library that converts text selections in web pages into serializable markings without requiring dependencies. It allows users to highlight portions of text and persist those markings even after the DOM has been modified by subsequent selections. The library stores markings in browser local storage, making highlights persistent across page refreshes.
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From the sources
Start marking this paragraph as an example and use either enter or the button under this section to highlight the result. Marklib supports highlighting/marking textnodes even if the DOM has been modified by another marking of Marklib . If you mark something on this page, it will be stored on your browsers local storage. Try to refresh the page and play a little bit :). var selection = document . getSelection (); new Marklib . Rendering ( document ) . renderWithRange ( selection . getRangeAt ( 0 )); A second paragraph with some latin like text Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam…from bowlingx.github.io
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