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In the default UI, the `code` element, specified in [.path]_css/base.css_, uses a fixed-width font which is loaded by a corresponding typeface stylesheet.
+
+[#highlight]
+== Highlighted text
+
+How xref:antora:asciidoc:highlight.adoc[highlighted text] appears on your site depends on the CSS styles applied to the `<mark>` HTML tag.
+
+[source,html]
+----
+<p>Let’s <mark>highlight this phrase</mark>.</p>
+----
+
+Since `<mark>` is a semantic HTML element, it automatically inherits default styling, such as `background-color`, from the browser.
+If you want to override the browser styles, you'll need to add the `mark` element and its new properties to the document content stylesheet.