Add Highlight Text Function in Thunderbird

[Progress2000]

Text highlighting is an essential function for composing emails. Thunderbird should incorporate this feature into its email client. Although add-ons like Textmarker can also do this, it is not very convenient to use and this feature should have been built-in into the email client. 

[Jon]

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[tornuggla]

Yes, having the ability to change color to the text but not to the background seems a bit half done. My guess is, that changed background color is easier to notice for color blind persons than changed text color, but that's only my guess.

[CorsairVelo]

This is one feature that exists in almost every other email interface/compose window I’ve tried. Really missing it with Thunderbird and hope it can be added.

[TravisD]

I receive many emails each day and then tag important ones. However even among tagged emails I would like to be able to highlight the pertinent information so that returning to those portions of the email would be much quicker, much more efficient. Thanks.

[Toad-Hall]

It is already possible, but not obvious and certainly not easy for the average user. It could be improved.

• select some 'text'
• Insert >HTML
• opens a small HTML window
• modify by surrounding the text with the 'mark' tag eg: <mark>'text'</mark>
• click on 'Insert'

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

In addition
<mark>This is if you want to stabilize in Yellow</mark>

Other colors
https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp

Redaction -> Insert -> HTML

<mark>This is if you want to stabilize in Yellow</mark>
<span style=background-color:#00ff40>My green text</span>it's a test<span style=background-color:#ff0000>My red text</span>end of test.

But it's a laborious job

[dongnan]

Is it technically difficult to highlight text when writing emails? I don't understand why such an important and commonly used function has such a low priority in Thunderbird.
I hope Thunderbird can develop this function as soon as possible.

[marc-silva]

Kindly add a highlight text button to the text formatting toolbar, perhaps similar to the way it is implemented in Outlook and other email composers.

-Sincerely, Marc