Text Selection Blur

What is Text Selection Blur

Text Selection Blur lets you precisely control what gets blurred by selecting text on the page. Selected text is automatically wrapped in a blur effect. Unlike Element Blur, it only blurs the text you select rather than the entire DOM element, offering finer precision.

How to Use

• Open the PureBlur control panel
• Click the "🎯" text selection button in the toolbar
• Select the text you want to hide with your mouse
• Release the mouse — the selected text is automatically blurred

Use Cases

Ideal for scenarios requiring precise control: hiding a single sentence in a paragraph, a specific cell in a table, or a particular number on a page — without affecting surrounding content.

Difference from Keyword Blur (Page-wide)

Text Selection Blur: Manual, per-instance selection. Only blurs the currently selected text segment — precise control.

Keyword Blur (see the "Keyword Blur" doc): After selecting a word, automatically blurs all matching text on the page — ideal for batch-processing recurring sensitive information.