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Change color of selection

How does this site manage to make text selection pink, rather than my browser default of blue?

Answer 1

It seems to be defined through the ::selection pseudo-element:

::selection {
background: #FF5E99;
color: white;
text-shadow: none;
}

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

• IE9 supports it, prior IE’s don’t
• Firefox supports it through ::-moz-selection
• Chrome and Safari seem to support it fully.