Snippets in HTML-Kit Tools can be customized to incorporate the selected text as follows:

• Open a document and select the text that you’d like to use in the new snippet.
• Select "File > Save As > Save as Snippet" from the main menu.
• Enter a title for the snippet and note the "Name" field.
• Check "Edit in snippet manager" option and click "OK"
• When the "Snippet Manager" dialog appears, select the snippet name (as listed in the "Name" field above).
• Update the snippet code to include "{{SELTEXT}}" and "useseltext=1″ as shown below:
#@begin-text "default" [useseltext=1, movecursor=1]

  text before selection|

  {{SELTEXT}}

  text after

  #@end-text "default"

• Click "OK" to save changes

Now you can use this new snippet to wrap the selected text.

• Open a document and select the target text.
• Press Ctrl+Shift+I to open "Insert Snippet" dialog.
• Click your snippet name. The selected text will be wrapped in "before" and "after" text.

Note that the "|" character is used to indicate caret location. It is optional and can be removed along with the "movecursor=1″ setting.

For more information on "begin-text" – "end-text" blocks in HTML-Kit Tools, please see Custom Actions.