Prevent element highlighting from highlighting the entire page

[swoh816]

Describe the solution you'd like

Problem: In the current version, you can select the entire document in highlight mode, overriding all the sentence and paragraph highlights. I don't think the document-wise highlight can go, because if I want to highlight the entire document, I can just clip it without highlighting anything.

Solution: Disable document-wise highlight in highlight mode.

[kepano]

The extension already does this to some extent. It blocks highlighting the html and body elements. However some websites have large div containers that might contain the entire page. Since we do still want to have element highlighting it's tricky to differentiate between which elements should be allowed and which shouldn't.

Some ideas that come to mind:

• An option to disable element highlighting, for everything except for paragraphs and images
• A modifier key that temporarily disables element highlighting

In the meantime you can also use Cmd+Z to cancel a highlight if you accidentally highlight the background.

[swoh816]

Indeed, only after I clicked the document in highlight mode, screaming out I lost all the highlights, I found out I can undo using Cmd+Z and I was relieved. (I think it'd also be helpful to have Cmd+Shift+Z or Cmd+Y or as well, because once you undo, you can't redo at the moment.)

I agree it's tricky. I like the way it can highlight any element in the document (except the entire document). Potentially, traversing the hierarchy of tags could resolve it. For example, filter the parent nodes that contain children nodes with <p> tags or <img> tags.