Highlight Text
A run of text with an animated highlight — marker, underline, circle and more. Like every block in the library, it is a second authoring surface, not a second renderer: the canvas preview and the front end are both produced by the highlight-text element — the same server-side code as the page builder — so the output is identical either way.
<img src="/img/blocks/highlight-text/front.png" alt="The Highlight Text block — "completely free" with a marker highlight" width="1210" />
Configure it
Select the block and open the Settings (block) tab. The whole sidebar is generated from the element’s option schema, so it stays in step with the page builder.
Options
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
Prefix / Text / Suffix (prefix, text, suffix) | The plain lead-in, the highlighted run, and the tail. |
Effect (fx) | The highlight style — marker, underline, circle, strike-through and more. |
Tag (tag) | The wrapping element — a heading level or a paragraph. |
Alignment (align) | Left, Center, or Right. |
Colours (text_color, accent_color) + Font size (font_size_preset) | Text and highlight colours, and a preset size. |
The block also opts into WordPress Margin / Padding (and, where it makes sense, alignment), which inherit the site’s design system from theme.json.
Sample content
A block stores only what you change as one upOptions object; the element’s declared defaults fill in the rest at render time. The demo above is:
<!-- wp:unysonplus/highlight-text {"upOptions":{"prefix":"Premium features, ","text":"completely free","suffix":".","align":"center"}} /-->
The highlight-text element
The block and the page builder’s Highlight Text element are two doors onto the same code. Its full option, markup and behaviour reference is documented there.