You can emphasize text on application panels or on help panels with highlighting by using the HP (highlighted phrase) tag. You can also highlight words or phrases to indicate that additional information is available by using the RP (reference phrase) tags. On a color terminal, the emphasized text displays in a CUA defined color, or whatever color you set with the Color Change Utility.

Highlighting requires the use of 3270 attribute bytes to control the display of highlighted text. The attribute positions before and after the highlighted text display as blank spaces. These attributes might limit the formatting of your highlighted phrase or reference phrase.

Here is an example of highlighting:

<HP>To cancel this option</HP>, press the F12 key.

Here is the result:

To cancel this option, press the F12 key.

You can prevent this situation by writing statements that do not require punctuation following an HP or an RP end tag.