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Text Highlighting

Highlight specific patterns, words, or characters in text with customizable colors. All processing happens locally in your browser.

Highlight all occurrences of a specific text substring.
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How to Use the Text Highlighting Tool

Text Substring Highlighting

  1. Select the "Text Substring" method
  2. Enter or paste your text in the input area
  3. Enter the substring you want to highlight
  4. Choose whether the highlighting should be case sensitive
  5. Select a highlight color
  6. All occurrences of the substring will be highlighted in the output

Regular Expression Highlighting

  1. Select the "RegExp Pattern" method
  2. Enter or paste your text in the input area
  3. Enter a regular expression pattern (e.g., \b\w{5,}\b for words with 5+ characters)
  4. Set appropriate flags (e.g., g for global, i for case-insensitive)
  5. Select a highlight color
  6. All text matching the pattern will be highlighted in the output

Specific Words Highlighting

  1. Select the "Specific Words" method
  2. Enter or paste your text in the input area
  3. Enter the words you want to highlight, separated by commas or spaces
  4. Choose whether the highlighting should be case sensitive
  5. Select a highlight color
  6. All occurrences of the specified words will be highlighted in the output

Specific Characters Highlighting

  1. Select the "Specific Characters" method
  2. Enter or paste your text in the input area
  3. Enter the characters you want to highlight (e.g., aeiou for vowels)
  4. Select a highlight color
  5. All occurrences of the specified characters will be highlighted in the output

Tip: The output contains HTML with span tags for highlighting. You can copy this HTML to use in your own documents or web pages.

About Text Highlighting

Text highlighting is a visual technique used to emphasize specific parts of text by applying a distinctive background color or style. This makes important information stand out and improves readability, especially when dealing with large amounts of text.

Common use cases for text highlighting include:

  • Emphasizing key points or important information in documents
  • Making search results more visible in text
  • Drawing attention to specific patterns or anomalies in data
  • Creating visual cues for educational or instructional content
  • Improving readability of technical documentation
  • Analyzing text for specific words, phrases, or patterns

Our Text Highlighting tool offers multiple methods to handle different highlighting needs:

  • Text Substring - For highlighting all occurrences of a specific text fragment
  • Regular Expressions - For advanced pattern-based highlighting
  • Specific Words - For highlighting a set of predefined words
  • Specific Characters - For highlighting individual characters wherever they appear

Whether you're a student studying text, a researcher analyzing documents, or a content creator emphasizing important points, this tool provides a simple way to visually enhance text with customizable highlighting options.