Is there a way to highlight text in Ver 78.5? I know I can change the color, but I want to highlight in yellow.
I don’t know of an addon that will do this, but TB can do it using the normal html compose box:
- select the text you want to highlight
- from the top menu: Insert, HTML
- you should see the selected text - xxxxxxxxxxxx
- change it to:
<span style="background-color:yellow">xxxxxxxxxxxx</span> - click ‘insert’ button
Dave,
Thanks that will work. I did have a addon for a previous version but now I cannot seem to find it (of course it would not work on 78.5) or the author. Maybe to convince them to update it.
Hi Bob,
I made a little Add-on for you, you can download it from:
http://pharqcon.bplaced.net/dl/textmarker.zip
After download rename “textmarker.zip” to “textmarker.xpi”.
Installation:
Tools - Add-ons,
top right beside “Manage Your Extensions” there is a litte gearwheel - click on it and choose “Install Add-on From File …”, then choose textmarker.xpi.
During writing a new message you can highlight the selected word or a select text passage, however if the text passage contains formatting, this will be replaced by pure text.
(To keep the format would require a bit more Add-on programming work …)
Is this the funtion you was looking for?
Thank You very much. That’s just want I was looking for. It works great.
Bob
When I was testing my snippit of CSS, I was slightly surprised that the yellow background colour does not show up in Thunderbird if you view the message body as ‘Simple HTML’. I thought that simple text formatting would be visible, but clearly not. The same is true of text colour.
Something to bear in mind when using highlighting - if your recipient uses Thunderbird. (I view simple html by default.)
Dave,
I always use Original HTML by default.
I am going to test sending to outlook and see what happens. I believe many of my recipients use outlook.
FYI outlook is highlighted (3 places)
Bob
Hi Bob,
I made a new version of the Add-on “Textmarker” and replaced the first one, so download address is the same:
http://pharqcon.bplaced.net/dl/textmarker.zip
Now you can select any text passage and turn the background colour to yellow, and all other formatting should not be changed.
Have fun!
C-E
P.S.
Now also available here:
@C-E That’s nice.
BTW: When you work on the colour options, I suggest you take a look at this: https://github.com/dreadnaut/bordercolors-d/issues/12
Happy to test if you don’t have Linux.