Make your own Medium style editor – jQuery Plugin

In plain words

Custom Highlight is an open source jQuery plugin that provides text highlighting functionality for web developers. It allows users to select and highlight text in web pages while supporting custom functions to extend its capabilities. Developers can use it as a foundation to build their own Medium-style editors with custom behavior. The plugin is available on GitHub for those seeking a lightweight, customizable highlighting solution.

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