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Aug 25th, 2022

How to change text selection color in CSS

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Dhairya Shah

Software Engineer

By default, text selection comes with light blue background and black text. We are going to change, the text selection color like this: Text selection

In your CSS file,

/* Custom Component Text Selection Change */
.component::selection{
    background-color: #FEF4B9;
}

/* Global Text Selection Change */
::selection {
    background-color: #FEF4B9;
}

After applying the above code in your CSS file, the text selection color will be changed.

Check out different styles you can apply with text selection:

See the Pen by Dhairya Shah (@dhairyathedev) on CodePen.

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