storybook/docs/essentials/highlight.md
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Highlight

Storybook's Highlight addon is a helpful tool for visually debugging your components, allowing you to highlight specific DOM nodes within your story when used as a standalone addon or enhancing other addons such as the Accessibility addon to inform you of accessibility issues within your components.

Story with highlighted elements

Highlighting DOM Elements

To highlight DOM elements with the addon, you'll need to emit the HIGHLIGHT event from within a story or an addon. The event payload must contain an elements property assigned to an array of selectors matching the elements you want to highlight. For example:

<CodeSnippets paths={[ 'react/component-story-highlight-addon.js.mdx', 'react/component-story-highlight-addon.ts.mdx', 'angular/component-story-highlight-addon.ts.mdx', 'vue/component-story-highlight-addon.js.mdx', 'vue/component-story-highlight-addon.ts.mdx', 'web-components/component-story-highlight-addon.js.mdx', 'web-components/component-story-highlight-addon.ts.mdx', ]} />

Reset highlighted elements

Out of the box, Storybook automatically removes highlighted elements when transitioning between stories. However, if you need to clear them manually, you can emit the RESET_HIGHLIGHT event from within a story or an addon. For example:

<CodeSnippets paths={[ 'react/addon-highlight-reset.js.mdx', 'react/addon-highlight-reset.ts.mdx', 'angular/addon-highlight-reset.ts.mdx', 'vue/addon-highlight-reset.js.mdx', 'vue/addon-highlight-reset.ts.mdx', 'web-components/addon-highlight-reset.js.mdx', 'web-components/addon-highlight-reset.ts.mdx', ]} />

Customize style

By default, the addon applies a standard style to the highlighted elements you've enabled for the story. However, you can enable your custom style by extending the payload object and providing a color and/or style properties. For example:

<CodeSnippets paths={[ 'react/highlight-addon-custom-style.js.mdx', 'react/highlight-addon-custom-style.ts.mdx', 'angular/highlight-addon-custom-style.ts.mdx', 'vue/highlight-addon-custom-style.js.mdx', 'vue/highlight-addon-custom-style.ts.mdx', 'web-components/highlight-addon-custom-style.js.mdx', 'web-components/highlight-addon-custom-style.ts.mdx', ]} />