permalink: web-clipper/highlight
aliases:
- highlights
- Highlighter
Web Clipper allows you to highlight text on web pages, and select the elements you want to save to Obsidian. Your highlights are saved, so you can revisit them when you return to a page.
Highlights can be captured and saved to Obsidian when you open the extension.
You can turn on highlighting in several ways, depending on your browser:
Once highlighting is on, you can select text, images, and elements you want to highlight.
You can change the highlighter behavior by going to Web Clipper settings. Here you can also export your highlights to a .json
file.
There are three options for highlights are inserted into your clipped note via the {{content}}
variable:
==highlight==
.You can add highlights directly to your template using the {{highlights}}
variable, for example:
{{highlights|map: item => item.text|join:"\n\n"}}