Highlight

Highlight marks text with a colored background to draw attention to key terms and phrases.

Basic Usage

This is very important information that you should remember.

Syntax:

This is ==highlighted text== in a sentence.

Multiple Highlights

Learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to become a front-end developer.

With Other Formatting

Highlights can be combined with other inline formatting:

• **Bold highlight** for extra emphasis
• *Italic highlight* for subtle emphasis
• `code highlight` for highlighted code

Use Cases

Key terms:

The Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for web documents.

Important values:

The default port is 8080 and the timeout is 30 seconds.

Comparisons:

Use `const` for values that don't change and `let` for values that do.

Best Practices

• Use highlights sparingly to maintain their visual impact
• Best for key terms, important values, and critical phrases
• Don't highlight entire paragraphs --- just the essential words