The <mark> element allows some text in the document to be highlighted.
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The default color for the highlighted text is yellow and this default color could be changed using CSS.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang='en'>
<meta charset='UTF-8'>
<title>Codecrawl.com - HTML 5</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Rod Stewart is one of the
<mark>best-selling music artists of all time</mark>
, having sold over 100 million records worldwide.
</p>
</body>
</html>
We can make some adjustments to the highlighting color by using CSS:
mark { background-color: lime; font-weight: bold; }