{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"highlight-style-props-extended-in-tui","canonical_anchor":"highlight-style-props-extended-in-tui","heading":"Highlighted text in the terminal can now use background colour, bold, italic and strikethrough","tier":"notice","area":"Terminal UI","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/highlight-style-props-extended-in-tui","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### Highlighted text in the terminal can now use background colour, bold, italic and strikethrough\n\nHighlighted text in the terminal display now keeps background colour, bold, italic and strikethrough, not just colour, dimming and underline\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which parts of Claude Code produce these highlights.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude Code highlights part of a line of text in its terminal display, it now passes more styles through to the screen. Previously a highlight could only carry:\n\n- a text colour\n\n- dimmed text\n\n- underline\n\nIt can now also carry:\n\n- a background colour\n\n- bold\n\n- italic\n\n- strikethrough (a line through the text)\n\n**Why**\n\nHighlights can now look more distinct, because styles that were dropped before are shown.\n\n- Area: Terminal UI\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}