jQuery.extend({
    highlight: function(node, re, nodeName, className) {
        if (node.nodeType === 3) {
            var match = node.data.match(re);
            if (match) {

                var highlight = document.createElement(nodeName || 'span');
                highlight.className = className || 'highlight';
                var wordNode = node.splitText(match.index);
                wordNode.splitText(match[0].length);
                var wordClone = wordNode.cloneNode(true);

                if (wordNode.parentNode.tagName && wordNode.parentNode.tagName.toLowerCase() !== 'textarea') {
                    highlight.appendChild(wordClone);
                    wordNode.parentNode.replaceChild(highlight, wordNode);
                }
                return 1; //skip added node in parent
            }
        } else if ((node.nodeType === 1 && node.childNodes) && // only element nodes that have children
            !/(script|style)/i.test(node.tagName) && // ignore script and style nodes
            !(node.tagName === nodeName.toUpperCase() && node.className === className)) { // skip if already highlighted
            for (var i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; i++) {
                i += jQuery.highlight(node.childNodes[i], re, nodeName, className);
            }
        }
        return 0;
    }
});

jQuery.fn.highlight = function(words, options) {
    var settings = {
        className: 'highlight animated flash',
        element: 'span',
        caseSensitive: false,
        wordsOnly: false
    };
    jQuery.extend(settings, options);

    if (words.constructor === String) {
        words = [words];
    }
    words = jQuery.grep(words, function(word, i) {
        return word != '';
    });
    words = jQuery.map(words, function(word, i) {
        return word.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g, "\\$&");
    });
    if (words.length == 0) {
        return this;
    };
    var flag = settings.caseSensitive ? "" : "i";
    var pattern = "(" + words.join("|") + ")";
    if (settings.wordsOnly) {
        pattern = "\\b" + pattern + "\\b";
    }
    var re = new RegExp(pattern, flag);

    return this.each(function() {
        jQuery.highlight(this, re, settings.element, settings.className);
    });
};

jQuery.fn.unhighlight = function(options) {
    var settings = {
        className: 'highlight',
        element: 'span'
    };
    jQuery.extend(settings, options);
    return this.find(settings.element + "." + settings.className)
        .each(function() {
            var parent = this.parentNode;
            parent.replaceChild(this.firstChild, this);
            parent.normalize();
        })
        .end();
};