Highlight Selected Text

A context menu item which highlights selected text.

Du musst eine Erweiterung wie Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey oder Violentmonkey installieren, um dieses Skript zu installieren.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

Sie müssten eine Skript Manager Erweiterung installieren damit sie dieses Skript installieren können

(Ich habe schon ein Skript Manager, Lass mich es installieren!)

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

(I already have a user style manager, let me install it!)

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Highlight Selected Text
// @description A context menu item which highlights selected text.
// @author      Schimon Jehudah, Adv.
// @namespace   i2p.schimon.highlight-selected-text-context-menu
// @homepageURL https://greasyfork.org/scripts/524708-highlight-selected-text
// @supportURL  https://greasyfork.org/scripts/524708-highlight-selected-text/feedback
// @copyright   2025, Schimon Jehudah (http://schimon.i2p)
// @license     Public Domain
// @exclude     devtools://*
// @match       file:///*
// @match       *://*/*
// @version     25.01
// @run-at      context-menu
// @icon        data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAxMDAgMTAwIj48dGV4dCB5PSIuOWVtIiBmb250LXNpemU9IjkwIj7wn5aN77iPPC90ZXh0Pjwvc3ZnPgo=
// ==/UserScript==

(function colorSelectedText() {
    const selection = document.getSelection();
    if (!selection.rangeCount) return;

    const range = selection.getRangeAt(0);
    const span = document.createElement('span');
    span.style.color = 'black';
    span.style.background = 'khaki';
    range.surroundContents(span);
})();