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id: create-a-new-highlight
title: "Create a new highlight"
description: "Create a new highlight"
sidebar_label: "Create a new highlight"
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  children={"Create a new highlight"}
>
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<MethodEndpoint
  method={"post"}
  path={"/highlights"}
  context={"endpoint"}
>
  
</MethodEndpoint>



Create a new highlight

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>
  
</ParamsDetails>

<RequestSchema
  title={"Body"}
  body={{"description":"The highlight to create","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"bookmarkId":{"type":"string"},"startOffset":{"type":"number"},"endOffset":{"type":"number"},"color":{"type":"string","enum":["yellow","red","green","blue"],"default":"yellow"},"text":{"type":"string","nullable":true},"note":{"type":"string","nullable":true}},"required":["bookmarkId","startOffset","endOffset","text","note"]}}}}}
>
  
</RequestSchema>

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  responses={{"201":{"description":"The created highlight","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"bookmarkId":{"type":"string"},"startOffset":{"type":"number"},"endOffset":{"type":"number"},"color":{"type":"string","enum":["yellow","red","green","blue"],"default":"yellow"},"text":{"type":"string","nullable":true},"note":{"type":"string","nullable":true},"id":{"type":"string"},"userId":{"type":"string"},"createdAt":{"type":"string"}},"required":["bookmarkId","startOffset","endOffset","text","note","id","userId","createdAt"],"title":"Highlight"}}}},"400":{"description":"Bad highlight request","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"code":{"type":"string"},"message":{"type":"string"}},"required":["code","message"]}}}},"404":{"description":"Bookmark not found","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"type":"object","properties":{"code":{"type":"string"},"message":{"type":"string"}},"required":["code","message"]}}}}}}
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