--- title: Unlock text editing use cases with highlightsFromPoint... description: Introduces the new CSS.highlights.highlightsFromPoint() API, which allows developers to query which custom CSS highlights exist at a specific point in the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/unlock-text-editing-use-cases-with-highlightsfrompoint-and-other-frompoint-apis-bopqhz6uu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Unlock text editing use cases with highlightsFromPoint and other FromPoint APIs | daily.dev og:description: Introduces the new CSS.highlights.highlightsFromPoint() API, which allows developers to query which custom CSS highlights exist at a specific point in the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/unlock-text-editing-use-cases-with-highlightsfrompoint-and-other-frompoint-apis-bopqhz6uu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bopQhZ6uU.png og:image:alt: Unlock text editing use cases with highlightsFromPoint and other FromPoint APIs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Unlock text editing use cases with highlightsFromPoint and other FromPoint APIs **[Patrick Brosset](https://daily.dev/sources/patrickbrosset)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Introduces the new CSS.highlights.highlightsFromPoint() API, which allows developers to query which custom CSS highlights exist at a specific point in the viewport. 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