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About Highlight em dashes
A performance-focused Chrome extension designed specifically to instantly identify and highlight Em-Dashes (—) and other punctuation across any website.
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✨ Key Features
- **🚀 Ultra-Fast Zero-DOM Highlighting**
Built with Chrome's native CSS Custom Highlight API, Highlight Em Dashes highlights dashes in real-time with zero DOM manipulation and zero browser lag.
- **🎨 Custom Highlight Colors & Smart Contrast**
Choose any highlight color you love. Built-in WCAG contrast calculation automatically adjusts overlay text color for effortless readability in both light and dark environments.
- **ℹ️ Unicode Inspector Tooltip Mode**
Hover over any highlighted dash to instantly inspect its character glyph, standard name (e.g. *Em Dash*), Unicode code point (`U+2014`), and HTML entity (`—`).
- **🎯 Granular Site Permissions & Domain Manager**
Easily toggle highlighting on or off for specific websites from the popup, and manage your full list of blocked domains in one place with one-click unblock or clear-all.
- **🔣 Broad Dash & Punctuation Support**
Select exactly which dash types to highlight:
- Em Dash (`—`, `U+2014`)
- En Dash (`–`, `U+2013`)
- Figure Dash (`‒`, `U+2012`)
- Horizontal Bar (`―`, `U+2015`)
- **⌨️ Keyboard Shortcut**
Toggle highlighting globally at any moment using `Alt+D` (customizable via Chrome's shortcut settings).
- **☁️ Cross-Device Cloud Sync**
Your preferences, custom colors, and site permissions sync automatically across all your devices via `chrome.storage.sync`.
- **🔒 100% Privacy-First**
No tracking, no analytics, no external servers, and **absolutely no ads**. Everything runs locally in your browser.
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📖 Why Use Highlight Em Dashes?
Ideal for writers, editors, proofreaders, translators, educators, and anyone analyzing AI-generated content or typographical styles.
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🛠️ Technical Excellence
- **Manifest V3 Compliant**: Built using the modern Manifest V3 standard for longevity and security.
- **Pure CSS Custom Highlight API**: Zero wrapper `<span>` or `<mark>` elements injected into page markup—never breaks website layouts or editor hydration.
- **Memory Efficient**: Throttled animation-frame processing for smooth scrolling on dense pages.