This is a simple chrome extention that allow you to highlight simple text on a web page, like you would highlight text on physical paper. Simply drag mouse over text to highlight.
This extension is yet to be published. To use this extension on your local machine, follow the below simple steps:
- Clone this repository
- Go to
chrome://extensions/. You must access this on your chrome browser - Enable developer mode
- Click on "Load unpacked", then select the cloned repository.
- You should now see the "Web highlighter" extention added to your extensions list (You should find your extensions list on the top right of your chrome browser.) Click on the "Web Highlighter" extension until you see the icon display the word "ON" - you are now ready to start highlighting!
Completed stories
GIVEN I am a user browsing a page on chrome window
WHEN I enable the web highlighter extension AND I drag my mouse over text
THEN I should see the text being highlighted
GIVEN that the text has been highlighted
WHEN I click away from the highlighted text
THEN I should still see the text being highlighted
GIVEN that I have a highlighted text on the page
WHEN I drag my mouse over another piece of text on the same page
THEN I should see the existing highlighted text and the next text both highlighted
GIVEN Web page includes content that is not simple text amongst simple text
WHEN I drag over simple text as well as non-text content
THEN I should be able to see the simple text part that I dragged over being highlighted
Incomplete stories
GIVEN I have highlighted text on the page
WHEN I drag over the highlighted text again
THEN I should see the text no longer being highlighted
GIVEN web page includes content that is not simple text
WHEN I drag over this content
THEN I should not encounter any errors in the background
*disclaimer: icon images was taken from Flaticon.com