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.

Add the macro to your page as follows:

{highlight:myColor}your content{highlight}

Parameters

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).

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The {highlight macro} is released under the BSD License.

© 2005 2005 Adaptavist.com Limited

This macro has been tested by Adaptavist with Confluence 1.4.1, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.1.2.

It is usually pre-installed with Builder accounts. To install it on your own Confluence installation, please see Content Formatting Macros

Adaptavist maintain a JIRA Project for tracking bug reports and feature requests for this macro. The currently reported items are shown below:

• color macro
• bgcolor macro

Standard Use

The key difference between this macro and the bgcolor macro is that this macro allows you to highlight just a portion of content.

There are several in-built pastel colours ideal for use as backgrounds:

{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}

Which results in something like:

You can also use many of the standard browser colour names, except those shown above, to display additional colours. For example:

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

Which results in:

Hexadecimal Colour Code

To make sure a specific colour is displayed, use a hexadecimal colour code:

{highlight:#003366}Slate blue{highlight}

Which results in: Slate blue

You'll note that the black text is difficult to read so you may also want to change the text colour using the color macro:

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

Which displays: Slate blue