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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 17, 2026

tailwindcss-highlights has 347 recorded weekly downloads on npm, a decrease of 58.4% over the past 30 days, ranking #1536 of 2,256 tracked listings.

Weekly downloads
347
Official API · Oct 17, 2026
7-day growth
-52.7%
-386 weekly downloads
30-day growth
-58.4%
-488 weekly downloads
90-day growth
-80.9%
-1.5K weekly downloads
Rank
#1536
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:

Usage

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

\ 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.

\ 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)].

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

| Size | Value |

| 0 | 0 | | none | 0 | | sm | -4px | | md | -8px | | lg | -12px | | xl | -16px |

Arbitrary values are also supported.

Other Examples

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

Adding a gradient to the highlight

\ Rotate the highlight

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: 347 weekly downloads as of Oct 17, 2026, -80.9% over 90 days.tailwindcss-highlightsWeekly downloads on npm · Last 90 days347downloads / week-80.9% over 90 days02004006008001K1.2KJul 19Aug 3Aug 18Sep 2Sep 17Oct 2Oct 17downloads / weekobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsJul 22, 2026 – Oct 17, 2026 · 88 observations · Updated Oc…pluginstats.com
tailwindcss-highlights weekly downloads on npm, last 90 days: 347 weekly downloads as of Oct 17, 2026, -80.9% over 90 days.

7/30/90-day growth

tailwindcss-highlights weekly downloads growth on npm: -52.7% over 7 days, -58.4% over 30 days, -80.9% over 90 days.tailwindcss-highlightsWeekly downloads growth on npm347downloads / week now7-day growth-386 weekly downloads-52.7%30-day growth-488 weekly downloads-58.4%90-day growth-1,466 weekly downloads-80.9%Growth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 17, 2026pluginstats.com
tailwindcss-highlights weekly downloads growth on npm: -52.7% over 7 days, -58.4% over 30 days, -80.9% over 90 days.

Ranking history

tailwindcss-highlights npm ranking history: currently #1536 (by weekly downloads).tailwindcss-highlightsnpm ranking · by weekly downloads · Last 90 days#1536current rank#400#600#800#1000#1200#1400#1600Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19rankOct 17, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct 17, 2026pluginstats.com
tailwindcss-highlights npm ranking history: currently #1536 (by weekly downloads).

Listing placement

All npm2,256 listings · 113 pages · 1,129 shown · page 77, #17 (overall #1,537)
All npm: every listing in weekly downloads order

Listing placement

Tailwind plugins252 listings · 13 pages · page 2, #10 (overall #30)
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.

Each band is one page of 20. Weekly downloads on a linear scale. Placement is projected from weekly downloads, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

Recent observations

Full history (543)
Recent weekly downloads observations for tailwindcss-highlights
Date (UTC)Weekly downloadsChange vs. previous
347-32
379-4
383-171
554-144
6980
698-51
749+16
733-37
770+63
707+22
685+66
619-102
721+90
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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 19, 2026. See the methodology.