It only deletes the entity in bookmarks, but the highlight still shows up in the page.
I remember I have reported this issue before. I cannot recall whether it has been fixed, and this is a regression, or we have never fixed this issue.
I don't recall seeing report for this issue before, so likely it was never fixed ;)
I also mentioned not being able to dismiss the highlight from the page, but I figured there was some trick to it that I didn't know.
Emmm, maybe I found this issue for a while, but I have not reported it. Or, indeed I come from… a different time line. :)
Anyway, deleting highlights from the page always works well for me. Though as @KenMaltby said, it's a little bit tricky.
This is by design, at least when it was implemented. The only way to delete an highlight is tapping the highlight you intent to delete and select the 'delete' option in the pop-up dialog. But deleting highlights from the bookmarks window is also nice and convenient.
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This is by design, at least when it was implemented. The only way to delete an highlight is tapping the highlight you intent to delete and select the 'delete' option in the pop-up dialog. But deleting highlights from the bookmarks window is also nice and convenient.