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HTML
<div id="ding">something and more</div>
<button id="smiling">
Push
</button>
CSS
mark {
background-color: orange;
}
JavaScript
var html_string = "something and more";
$("#smiling").click(function() {
var with_highlight = $("<div/>").html(html_string).mark(html_string);
$("#ding").html(with_highlight);
});