This javascript library allows you to add a text highlighter to your web pages, which gives the users of your site the ability to share with others their own highlighted text passages on your web pages. Another way to see EFatMarker: a "TL;DR mitigator".
I used a copy of a page on gnu.org and embedded EFatMarker's js and
css files in it, added the efm-target class to the HTML element
which contains the main content, and so here are examples of permalinked
highlights:
- http://www.raymondhill.net/efatmarker/foreign-signs.html#efmAW0AX2
- http://www.raymondhill.net/efatmarker/foreign-signs.html#efmA8IA9h
This one is a version which include jQuery and uses the efm-button-container
class in order to control the position of the EFatMarker button:
The content of the page itself doesn't change, the fragment identifier (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/intro.html#fragment-uri) in the URL address specifies what portion of text must be dynamically highlighted after the page loads.
In the <head> section of your HTML file, include:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="efatmarker.css" />
To change the style of the highlighted text, style the class .efm-hi
in your own file, provided your CSS file is loaded after efatmarker.css.
Also, anywhere in your file, usuably preferably before the closing </body>
tag, include:
<script type="text/javascript" src="efatmarker.js"></script>
You must identify the HTML container element in your document which
contains the text which will inherit the ability to be dynamically
highlighted. Identify this container element by adding the class
efm-target to its class attribute.
If there is more than one HTML element with class efm-target, EFatMarker
will consider only the first one encountered.
Optional: If there is an HTML element with the class efm-button-container
in the page, this element will be used to receive the EFatMarker button,
otherwise, the <body> tag is used by default, with the button at the
bottom right corner.
There are no outside dependencies, however, if jQuery or MooTools' Fx is present, these will be used to auto scroll to the first highlight when the page loads the first time.
So far, tested on
== LinuxMint 14 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu0.12.10.1):
- Chromium 25.0.1364.160
- Firefox 20.0
If the content of the target text changes, highlights made before change will no longer be accurately displayed.
- Author: Raymond Hill
- Home: https://github.com/gorhill/efatmarker
EFatMarker icon: http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/gallery2/?./Icons/apps/kedit-2.png
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