Highlighting text in RichTextLabel

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Hi all,

Lately I have been using RichTextLabels a lot and I like the functionality that comes with it. Something I haven't been able to do, however, is to highlight certain text. I don't think this formatting option exists in RichTextLabels, but I was wondering if anyone has ideas for workarounds.

This is what I'm trying to do:
Example

If I were able to get the exact position of a word, I could possibly use a ColorRect, but I don't know how to accomplish that.

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Highlighting text in RichTextLabel isn't implemented yet, but there's an open pull request which implements precisely the feature you need.

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Good to know! I don't really know how to compile a custom version of Godot (I'm using the standard version), but I'll try to find out how that works.

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