highlight – Tarik Billa

Pen highlighter effect in css

April 12, 2024 by Tarik

for a hyper realistic pen highlighter! Play with the background gradients for the intensity and with text-shadow to give it a washed effect. span { padding: 0.6em 13.7px; line-height: 1.8em; font-size: 23px; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,”Segoe UI”,Roboto,”Helvetica Neue”,Arial; } span.highlight { font-weight: bolder; background: linear-gradient(104deg, rgba(130, 255, 173,0) 0.9%, rgba(130, 255, 173,1.25) 2.4%, rgba(130, 255, 173,0.5) 5.8%, … Read more

How to ensure two words stay on the same line?

April 9, 2024 by Tarik

Just apply a non-breaking space ( ) between the two words: word1 word2 This is especially useful when it comes to french punctuation and numbers If you need this on a larger scale then you can use CSS: div { white-space: nowrap; } <div>word 1 word2 word3</div> You would have to use this method if you are … Read more

How does `#:~:text=` in URL works to highlight text?

December 26, 2023 by Tarik

The highlighting is called Text Fragments. Its a new feature that was recently added to Chrome 80. It works by specifying a text snippet in the URL hash. Yes it is browser specific. No, the experience that you get when clicking on a link from Google’s search results is part of Featured Snippets which are … Read more

Highlight active row/column in Excel without using VBA?

December 9, 2023 by Tarik

The best you can get is using conditional Formatting. Create two formula based rules: =ROW()=CELL(“row”) =COLUMN()=CELL(“col”) As shown in: The only drawback is that every time you select a cell you need to recalculate your sheet. (You can press “F9”)

Mobile Web – Disable long-touch/taphold text selection

December 9, 2023 by Tarik

Highlight on clickablespan click

September 18, 2023 by Tarik

You can override onClick(View widget) like this: @Override public void onClick(View widget) { // do what must happen after click event. widget.invalidate(); }

AutocompleteTextView: on “NEXT” highlight next TextView, on “DONE”, make keyboard disappear

September 15, 2023 by Tarik

I ran into this problem and fixed it by setting the imeOptions on the AutocompleteTextView to actionNext. Example: <AutoCompleteTextView android:id=”@+id/dialog_product_name” android:layout_width=”0dp” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:layout_weight=”1″ android:singleLine=”true” android:completionThreshold=”1″ android:imeOptions=”actionNext” />

Highlight ListView selected row

August 26, 2023 by Tarik

Other solution (mostly in XML) 1) set the choiceMode of the ListView to singleChoice <ListView android:choiceMode=”singleChoice” …/> 2) Items of the list must be a Checkable View and use a Color State List as Background eg: album_item.xml <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <CheckedTextView xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:background=”@drawable/list_selector” …/> 3) the background Color State (list_selector.xml) defines the highlight color <?xml … Read more

Is there a way to leave the Okular highlighting tool on permanently? [closed]

July 31, 2023 by Tarik

Double-clicking the tool solves it, as I found in a Bug report pointing to the manual.

How to improve git’s diff highlighting?

July 29, 2023 by Tarik

The word-diff suggested in the other answer isn’t exactly what gitlab/github do. To get same effect, you can use diff-highlight script that is distributed with git. First find path to diff-highlight script. It varies between systems, and is not usually in $PATH. You can find it with your package manager, for example: Fedora: rpm -ql … Read more