yuku-t/jquery-overlay — pull request #6 by ranvis (2014-06-11 12:44:46+00:00)
Title: Allow match pattern to contain span tag-ish text

This handy plugin reminds me of ColorizeHC :relaxed:

Well, the main idea is to keep result as DOM tree until the end, walking through elements and only find&replace text nodes.
This should resolve #1 and #3.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ranvis/3GHbK/

Mixed with patch for destroy :)