1 CSS Text Highlight Examples

This collection is a guide to styling text highlights, from simple branding to complex animations. It starts with the basics: customizing the native selection color with ::selection. Then, it moves on to creating a “highlighter” effect using linear-gradient. To add interactivity, animated underlines and highlights that “draw” themselves on hover with transition are demonstrated. This is your toolkit for drawing attention to text.

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Pure CSS Entity Visualizer

An automated text annotation interface powered by Sass loops that visualizes semantic entity types using pseudo-elements and data attributes.