alt Hacker NewsThe example on their website is editable and it looks like they overlay the highlighted output on top of the textarea with `pointer-events: none` like you mentioned.
The code isn't minified so you can see how they do it by looking at the `doHighlight()` function here https://arborium.bearcove.eu/pkg/app.generated.js
Oh, you are right!
Hmm .. and the approach already shows its weaknesses when I play with it: When I search for something on the page, it gives me twice as many hits as there are. And jumps around two times to each hit when I use the "next" button.
I wonder if that is fixable.