Styling the Highlighting in CSS

Question

Is it possible to change the background color and foreground color (or text color) of the highlighted portion in a HTML page? In another words, customize the hightlighting of our Webpage

Answer 1

Only with CSS3 (modern browsers only, obviously), if you want to use pure CSS.

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

Answer 2

If I understand you correctly, you are looking for these styles:

• ::selection (General)
• ::-moz-selection (For Mozilla)
• ::-webkit-selection (For Webkit)

More Info:

• http://www.quirksmode.org/css/selection.html