[jQuery] How can I replace some text to another fragment? Wrappers don't support it

[ranium]

Hello. How can I replace some text to another fragment? For example,
if I want to highlight all words ‘the’ with red color, I guess to do
something like that

$('body').ReplaceTo(‘%the%’, ‘<span style=”background-color:
red;”>the</span>’);

 I can’t do this with standard wrappers built-in on jQuery…