How to Change the Highlight Color on Any Website

What is Highlight Color?

The highlight color feature switches your saved highlights on and gives you a color picker. When it is on, the highlights you make show on the page and are saved, so they are still there when you come back to the page later.

This is the permanent highlighter tool for annotating pages, not the temporary color you see while selecting text.

Who is This For?

This feature is helpful for:

• Students who highlight important information while studying
• People who want to mark key points on a page and find them again later
• Anyone who takes notes while reading online
• People with visual preferences for certain colors
• Anyone who wants to personalize their browsing experience

Step 1: Open Helperbird

Click the Helperbird icon in your browser toolbar. It looks like a small owl and is usually in the top-right corner of your browser.

This will open the Helperbird menu.

Step 2: Open the All Features Section

Scroll down to the bottom of the Helperbird menu. You will see a section called All Features.

Click the arrow next to All Features to expand it and show all available features.

Step 3: Find Colors

Look through the list of features until you see Colors.

It has a yellow icon with a paint palette on it.

Step 4: Open the Colors Panel

Click the arrow button on the Colors row to open it.

A panel will appear with a list of color options: Text color, Link color, Background color, and Highlight color.

Step 5: Turn on Highlight Color

Scroll down to Highlight color at the bottom of the panel.

Click the toggle switch next to it to turn it on. The toggle will turn green when it is enabled.

Step 6: Choose Your Color

Once Highlight color is turned on, a color palette will appear below the toggle.

Click on any color to select it. This does not set the color of new highlights. Every highlight you make takes the color you pick in the Highlight Menu. The color chosen here is a fallback, used when a saved highlight has no color of its own.

Step 7: Start Highlighting

Highlighting text needs a second feature switched on: the Highlight Menu, which is off to start with. Without it, selecting text does nothing and this step will seem broken.

Turn it on in All Features first. See how to use the highlight menu. The Highlight Menu row is not in the list on iPad or iPhone, and the menu does not run on Google Docs documents.

With it on, select the text you want on a web page. A small menu appears above your selection. Choose the highlighter and pick a color: blue, green, red, yellow, grey or purple.

Making a highlight needs Helperbird Pro. On the free plan Helperbird shows an Upgrade to unlock message instead of highlighting the text.

Your highlights stay on the page when you come back to it, and clicking a highlight opens it in Helperbird Notes.

Video Tutorial

Need Additional Help?

If you have any questions or run into any issues, please contact the Helperbird support team. You can reach us at Helperbird support. We are happy to help you get the most out of Helperbird.