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# springLoadingHighlight

A highlighting style for your app’s user interface to display during a spring-loading operation.

```
@MainActor var springLoadingHighlight: NSSpringLoadingHighlight { get }
```

## Discussion

During a spring-loaded operation, a destination may initiate animated highlighting to visually cue the user that spring-loading has been engaged or disengaged.

This property contains a highlight style of class [`NSSpringLoadingHighlight`](/documentation/AppKit/NSSpringLoadingHighlight)—no highlight, standard highlight, or emphasized highlight. Use this value to update your destination’s user interface accordingly to reflect the appropriate highlight style.

> Important:
> Do not use highlighting as a means to determine whether spring-loading has actually been activated or deactivated. The ``doc://com.apple.appkit/documentation/AppKit/NSSpringLoadingDestination/springLoadingActivated(_:draggingInfo:)`` method alerts your app when spring-loading activation occurs.

## See Also

[`springLoadingHighlightChanged(_:)`](/documentation/AppKit/NSSpringLoadingDestination/springLoadingHighlightChanged(_:))

Updates the destination’s user interface to display a new highlighting style during a spring-loading operation.

[`NSSpringLoadingHighlight`](/documentation/AppKit/NSSpringLoadingHighlight)

A group of constants that indicate a highlighting style for your app’s user interface to display during a spring-loading operation.

[`NSSpringLoadingDestination`](/documentation/AppKit/NSSpringLoadingDestination)

A set of methods that the destination object (or recipient) of a dragged object can implement to support spring-loading.


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