Is there a way to remove a highlight from a selection instead a whole element?

[ghost]

I'm trying to unmark a single selection but removeHighlights removes all the highlights.

[mir3z]

There is no such functionality right now. You can only remove highlight(s) from a given element (http://mir3z.github.io/texthighlighter/doc/TextHighlighter.html#removeHighlights). However, you are more than welcome to implement this by yourself and then request a pull.

[vinniejames]

This took me a while to figure out as well, since I was trying to use .click(), which doesn't add listeners to nodes that don't exist yet.

The solution was to use .on() instead:

$(document.body).on('click','.highlighted', function(e){
    hltr.removeHighlights(e.target);
});