Highlight Text
Marks a phrase as it scrolls into view: a marker sweep, a hand-drawn underline, or a scribbled circle.
- Category: Text
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Highlight Text
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
variant | "marker" | "underline" | "circle" | "marker" | |
delay | number | 0.2 |
About Highlight Text
Highlight Text marks a phrase as it scrolls into view with a marker sweep, a hand-drawn underline or a scribbled circle. It is how you point at the one idea a section is about.
Highlight Text is a text animation for React 19, styled with Tailwind CSS 4 and animated with Motion. It drops into Next.js, Vite, Remix or Astro through the shadcn CLI as a single file you own.
When to use Highlight Text
- Emphasis in landing page copy.
- Key benefits in feature sections.
- Testimonials that call out a result.
- Blog posts and long-form.
How it works
The marks are SVG paths drawn with pathLength once the phrase enters view, sized to the text's box. The highlighted words stay plain text.
The real text stays in the page for screen readers and search engines; the animated letters are decorative copies marked aria-hidden. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Highlight Text
Every prop is documented in the API reference above with its type and default. The ones you will reach for first are listed here.
The Customize panel next to the preview lets you change variant, delay live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- variant (default "marker").
- delay (number, default 0.2).
Goes well with Highlight Text
Highlight Text is already composed into a ready-made section, so you can see it in context or install the whole block.
- Hero Gallery: Hero section
- Scramble Text: React scramble text: characters cycle through glyphs before locking in
- Rotating Text: React rotating text that rolls between words letter by letter and resizes smoothly
- Text Morph: React text morph: shared letters glide to new spots while the rest blur in and out
- Split Flap: A React split-flap display: every cell flips through the drum to its letter
- Scroll Text: React scroll text: words light up one by one as the paragraph scrolls by
Install Highlight Text
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/highlight-textHighlight Text is part of Charcoal UI Pro. One seat unlocks all 300 Pro components, 107 landing-page sections and 100 full templates, for every personal and client project, with updates included. Add the @charcoal registry once with your access token, then the command above copies highlight-text.tsx into components/ui and installs clsx, tailwind-merge.
You own the file you install: no runtime package, no lock-in, nothing to keep in sync. Change it however your product needs.
See Charcoal UI Pro pricing · Pro setup
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install Highlight Text?
- Highlight Text is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/highlight-text. It copies highlight-text.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Highlight Text free for commercial use?
- Highlight Text needs a Charcoal UI Pro seat, monthly or a one-time lifetime price. A seat covers unlimited personal and commercial projects, including client work, and every future Pro component.
- Does Highlight Text work with Next.js?
- Yes. It is a client component for React 19 styled with Tailwind CSS 4, so it works in the Next.js App Router and Pages Router, Vite, Remix and Astro.
- Can an AI coding agent install Highlight Text?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Highlight Text's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.