Changing the highlight color when selecting text i

Question

I've been looking for this throughout the web and can't even find anyone else even asking this, let alone a solution...

Is there a way to change the color of the highlight area within a text input when text is selected? Not the highlight border or the background, but the portion that appears around the text when you have the text actually selected.

Answer 1

If you are looking for this:

Here is the link:

http://css-tricks.com/overriding-the-default-text-selection-color-with-css/

Answer 2

It seems like when you define the border inside of a focus pseudo element style declaration it uses that instead of the normal blue border. Using that you can define a style that is exactly the same as the element border.

input:focus, textarea:focus {
    border:1px solid gray;
}

#textarea  {
  position:absolute;
  top:10px;
  left:10px;
  right:10px;
  width:calc(100% - 20px);
  height:160px;
  display:inline-block;
  margin-top:-0.2em;
}

<textarea id="textarea">yo</textarea>

Here is a modified border style:

input:focus, textarea:focus {
    border:2px dotted red;
}

#textarea  {
  position:absolute;
  top:10px;
  left:10px;
  right:10px;
  width:calc(100% - 20px);
  height:160px;
  display:inline-block;
  margin-top:-0.2em;
}

<textarea id="textarea">yo</textarea>

Answer 3

Thanks for the links, but it does seem as if the actual text highlighting just isn't exposed.

As far as the actual issue at hand, I ended up opting for a different approach by eliminating the need for a text input altogether and using innerHTML with some JavaScript. Not only does it get around the text highlighting, it actually looks much cleaner.

This granular of a tweak to an HTML form control is just another good argument for eliminating form controls altogether. Haha!

Answer 4

Try this code to use:

/* For Mozile Firefox Browser */

::-moz-selection { background-color: #4CAF50; }

/* For Other Browser*/
::selection { background-color: #4CAF50; }

Answer 5

this is the code.

/*** Works on common browsers ***/
::selection {
    background-color: #352e7e;
    color: #fff;
}

/*** Mozilla based browsers ***/
::-moz-selection {
    background-color: #352e7e;
    color: #fff;
}

/***For Other Browsers ***/
::-o-selection {
    background-color: #352e7e;
    color: #fff;
}

::-ms-selection {
    background-color: #352e7e;
    color: #fff;
}

/*** For Webkit ***/
::-webkit-selection {
    background-color: #352e7e;
    color: #fff;
}

Answer 6

I guess this can help :

selection styles

It's possible to define color and background for text the user selects.

Try it below. If you select something and it looks like this, your browser supports selection styles.

This is the paragraph with normal ::selection.

This is the paragraph with ::-moz-selection.

This is the paragraph with ::-webkit-selection.

Testsheet:

p.normal::selection {
  background:#cc0000;
  color:#fff;
}

p.moz::-moz-selection {
  background:#cc0000;
  color:#fff;
}

p.webkit::-webkit-selection {
  background:#cc0000;
  color:#fff;
}

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