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Overview:

The {highlight} macro allows you to change background colour of a section of content...

There are times when you want to highlight a section of content (such as a word within a paragrpah) to make it stand out more on your page and that's exactly what this macro does.

You can specify any backgorund colour using either colour names or their hexadecimal colour codes.

Parameters:

Add the macro to your page as follows:

{highlight:myColor}your content{highlight}

Parameter	Required	Default	Notes
default		yellow	The "myColor" default parameter defines the background colour for the content contained within the macro and can be either a common colour name (supported by most browsers) or a hexadecimal colour code (supported by all browsers).

Examples:

{highlight:red}red{highlight}
{highlight:yellow}yellow (default){highlight}
{highlight:green}green{highlight}
{highlight:cyan}cyan{highlight}
{highlight:blue}blue{highlight}
{highlight:purple}purple{highlight}

{highlight:orange}orange{highlight}
{highlight:violet}violet{highlight}

{highlight:#003366}Slate blue{highlight}

{highlight:#003366}{color:white}Slate blue{color}{highlight}

Hints and Tips:

Alternate background colours can be used to highlight important information on a page by drawing the visitors attention to it due to the unusual colour.

When changing background colour, please try and keep a contrast between the text and the background so that it is still clearly readable. For example, in our example above, the slate blue background made the black text barely readable.

Frequently Asked Questions:

See Also:

• color macro
• bgcolor macro