<!DOCTYPE html> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>CSS Pseudo-Elements Test: active selection, color and background-color</title> <link rel="author" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/"> <link rel="help" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-pseudo-4/#highlight-selectors"> <link rel="help" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-pseudo-4/#highlight-styling"> <link rel="match" href="reference/active-selection-018-ref.html"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="support/highlights.css"> <style> div { color: green; font-size: 300%; } span { color: red; } div::selection { background-color: white; } /* This div::selection rule is necessary. Without it, "Selected Text" would be using the OS-default highlight colors for ::selection because neither color nor background-color would have been specified by the author. */ span::selection { color: white; } </style> <script> function startTest() { var targetRange = document.createRange(); /* We first create an empty range */ targetRange.selectNodeContents(document.getElementById("parent")); /* Then we set the range boundaries to the children of div#parent */ window.getSelection().addRange(targetRange); /* Finally, we now select such range of content */ } </script> <body onload="startTest();"> <p>Test passes if each glyph of "Selected Text" is green, if background color of each glyph of "Selected Text" is white and if there is <strong>no red</strong>. <div id="parent" class="highlight_reftest">Selected Text <span>FAIL</span></div>