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