HighlightOfMyLife

What

This great javascript library changes your highlight color based on the text selected.

Get

Available as a drop in javascript library.

How

Currently a function is bound to the mouseup event to detect when new text is selected. Afterwards the text is processed in 4 steps

Step 1

Replace all non-hex characters in the string with 0.

Step 2

Pad the string out to the nearest multiple of 3 with 0s.

Step 3

Get the first two characters from each third of the string.

Step 4

Finally these 6 characters are assigned as the new text highlighting color.