When highlighting html on a page, it colors the words blue, but doesn't give it blue background?

Question

I have a simple page with some html. When I hold and drag the mouse to highlight a part of it, for example a paragraph, it changes the forecolor of the text to blue, it does not change the forecolor to white and change the backcolor to blue as it normally does. Does anyone know anything that would cause this, for example, a certain CSS setting or something else?

Could this happen if the text, in this case the paragraph tags are on an image (the background is set to an image)?

Is there a way to change what the highlight color of the text when you highlight it?

Answer 1

That is exactly the behavior of selecting an image.

CSS cannot directly influence this; it's a function of the browser.

EDIT: You've added that the background is set to an image, but this would not influence the highlighting at all. Do you have a sample URL?

Answer 2

1. What browser?
2. Are you able to post the HTML in question?