highlight text pulled from function

highlight text pulled from function

i'm building a really simple mashup using twitter api / jquery / json

everything's working perfectly but i want to highlight my search terms (there are multiple terms separated by 'OR' in the query) in the results.

I found the jquery highlight mentions across a few tutorials and spaces, but they mostly refer to search results and inline styling instead of styling applied within the function.

i'm a complete newbie to jquery, and trying to learn as i go, but i'd appreciate someone much cleverer than i to point me in the right direction for both a tutorial, but in the short term, some advice on where to stick my code!

what i have is here (i've not included the highlight code, as it's a pretty standard function and i'm pretty sure i had it all wrong anyways)

$(function(){
      var search_term = 'term1 OR term2 OR term3';
      
      $.twitter.liveSearch(search_term, {rpp:5, channel_name:'foobar'}, function(resp){
         $(resp.results).each(function(){
            $('#box1').prepend('<div class="foo" id="'+this.id+'">\
               <a href="http://twitter.com/'+this.from_user+'">\
               <p>'+this.text+'</p></a>\
               </div>');
            $('#'+this.id).hide();
            $('#'+this.id).fadeIn('slow');
            $('#box div:gt(5)').each(function(){
               $(this).fadeOut('fast');
            });
         });
      });
      );
      
   });


Thanks!!