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tailwindcss-highlights weekly downloads statistics

By jln13x · npm · Tailwind plugins

A tailwindcss plugin to add highlights to your text

View on npm Stale · Oct 18, 2026

tailwindcss-highlights has 377 recorded weekly downloads on npm, a decrease of 52.5% over the past 30 days, ranking #1631 of 2,391 tracked listings.

Weekly downloads
377
Official API · Oct 18, 2026
7-day growth
-49.7%
-372 weekly downloads
30-day growth
-52.5%
-417 weekly downloads
90-day growth
-78.6%
-1.4K weekly downloads
Rank
#1631
Among tracked npm listings

About tailwindcss-highlights

tailwindcss-highlights - A plugin for tailwindcss

See it in Action 👉 Preview or Playground

This plugin adds utility classes to easily add highlights to your texts.

Installation

To install the package, run

npm install -D tailwindcss-highlights

Add the plugin to the tailwind.config.js file in:

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    require('tailwindcss-highlights')),
  ]
}

Usage

Use highlight to add the default highlight (variant 1) to your element.

<p class="highlight">
    Lorem Ipsum
</p>


To change the color of the highlight use highlight-{color}. All the colors from your theme (default ones and customs) are available aswell as arbitrary values.

<p class="highlight highlight-indigo-600">
    Lorem Ipsum
</p>


You can choose from different kinds of variants with highlight-variant-{value}. Check out the available variants on the Preview or use your own variant e.g. highlight-variant-[url(./path/to/custom-variant.svg)].

<p class="highlight highlight-indigo-600 highlight-variant-7">
    Lorem Ipsum
</p>

Credits for some of the variants: svgbox


Use the highlight-spread--Utility to make the highlight spread into some direction.

  • highlight-spread-{size} - Spread in all directions
  • highlight-spread-{y,x}-{size} - Spread on the x or y axis
  • highlight-spread-{t,b,l,r}-{size} - Set the spread for each direction individually <br />
SizeValue
00
none0
sm-4px
md-8px
lg-12px
xl-16px

Arbitrary values are also supported. <br />

<p class="highlight highlight-indigo-600 highlight-variant-7 highlight-spread-md">
    Lorem Ipsum
</p>

<p class="highlight highlight-indigo-600 highlight-spread-x-sm highlight-spread-y-xl">
    Lorem Ipsum
</p>

<p class="highlight highlight-indigo-600 highlight-spread-l-xl highlight-spread-t-sm">
    Lorem Ipsum
</p>

Other Examples

This plugin adds the highlight as ::after-pseudo element so its possible to add additional styling by using the after:-utility.
<br /> Change the position

<p class="highlight highlight-variant-5 after:translate-y-2 after:-translate-x-4">
    Lorem Ipsum
</p>

Adding a gradient to the highlight

<p class="highlight highlight-variant-12 after:bg-gradient-to-tr after:from-amber-500 after:to-sky-500">
    Lorem Ipsum
</p>


Rotate the highlight

<p class="highlight highlight-variant-12 after:rotate-12">
    Lorem Ipsum
</p>

Note: The owner of this repository is not with associated with the company Tailwind Labs Inc. This is just a plugin for tailwindcss

Description from the npm listing.

  • plugin
  • tailwind
  • tailwindcss
  • tailwindcss-plugin
  • highlights
  • marks
  • brushes

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Charts

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Adoption over time

tailwindcss-highlights weekly downloads on npm, last 90 days: 377 weekly downloads as of Oct 18, 2026, -78.6% over 90 days.tailwindcss-highlightsWeekly downloads on npm · Last 90 days377downloads / week-78.6% over 90 days02004006008001K1.2KJul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18downloads / weekobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsJul 23, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 88 observations · Updated Oc…pluginstats.com
tailwindcss-highlights weekly downloads on npm, last 90 days: 377 weekly downloads as of Oct 18, 2026, -78.6% over 90 days.

7/30/90-day growth

tailwindcss-highlights weekly downloads growth on npm: -49.7% over 7 days, -52.5% over 30 days, -78.6% over 90 days.tailwindcss-highlightsWeekly downloads growth on npm377downloads / week now7-day growth-372 weekly downloads-49.7%30-day growth-417 weekly downloads-52.5%90-day growth-1,385 weekly downloads-78.6%Growth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
tailwindcss-highlights weekly downloads growth on npm: -49.7% over 7 days, -52.5% over 30 days, -78.6% over 90 days.

Ranking history

tailwindcss-highlights npm ranking history: currently #1631 (by weekly downloads).tailwindcss-highlightsnpm ranking · by weekly downloads · Last 90 days#1631current rank#400#600#800#1000#1200#1400#1600#1800Jul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21rankOct 17, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 5 observations · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
tailwindcss-highlights npm ranking history: currently #1631 (by weekly downloads).

Listing placement

All npm2,389 listings · 120 pages · 1,195 shown · page 83, #17 (overall #1,657)
All npm: every listing in weekly downloads order

Listing placement

Tailwind plugins257 listings · 13 pages · page 2, #13 (overall #33)
Tailwind plugins: every listing in weekly downloads order

Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

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Recent observations

Full history (544)
Recent weekly downloads observations for tailwindcss-highlights
Date (UTC)Weekly downloadsChange vs. previous
377+30
347-32
379-4
383-171
554-144
6980
698-51
749+16
733-37
770+63
707+22
685+66
619-102
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Data source

Weekly downloads (trailing 7 complete days) come from the official npm downloads API. Downloads include CI and mirrors and are not equivalent to installs or users. npm publishes no ratings.

Listing: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tailwindcss-highlights. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 21, 2026. See the methodology.