Text Highlighting
Highlight specific patterns, words, or characters in text with customizable colors. All processing happens locally in your browser.
How to Use the Text Highlighting Tool
Text Substring Highlighting
- Select the "Text Substring" method
- Enter or paste your text in the input area
- Enter the substring you want to highlight
- Choose whether the highlighting should be case sensitive
- Select a highlight color
- All occurrences of the substring will be highlighted in the output
Regular Expression Highlighting
- Select the "RegExp Pattern" method
- Enter or paste your text in the input area
- Enter a regular expression pattern (e.g.,
\b\w{5,}\b
for words with 5+ characters) - Set appropriate flags (e.g.,
g
for global,i
for case-insensitive) - Select a highlight color
- All text matching the pattern will be highlighted in the output
Specific Words Highlighting
- Select the "Specific Words" method
- Enter or paste your text in the input area
- Enter the words you want to highlight, separated by commas or spaces
- Choose whether the highlighting should be case sensitive
- Select a highlight color
- All occurrences of the specified words will be highlighted in the output
Specific Characters Highlighting
- Select the "Specific Characters" method
- Enter or paste your text in the input area
- Enter the characters you want to highlight (e.g.,
aeiou
for vowels) - Select a highlight color
- 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.
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