Selection in CSS | CSS ::selection

How To Change Text Selection Color

Selection in CSS ::selection is a selector of CSS, that highlighted the text, which is selected by the user.

For example, a part of a web page that is selected by the user using any device like a mouse or any pointing device.

See an image (selection CSS), also I provide the complete demo,

When you use ::selection that can change the background and foreground of the text of selected text.

CSS Syntax | ::selection

::selection {
    CSS property declarations;
}

On the below example, we change the background text color using ::selection CSS property,

::selection {
    background-color: red;
    color: white;
}

The above ::selection CSS code supported by all the browser but for Mozilla firefox, we change the code,

/* Code for Mozilla Firefox */
::-moz-selection {
  color: red;
  background: yellow;
}

How to disable text selection highlighting

Here is a code for disable text selection highlighting,

<p class="element"
 style="color:red;-moz-user-select: none; -webkit-user-select: none; -ms-user-select:none; user-select:none;-o-user-select:none;" 
 unselectable="on"
 onselectstart="return false;" 
 onmousedown="return false;">
    You Can not select me
</p>

CSS ::selection Live Demo

See the Pen CSS ::selection PHPCODER.TECH by Bikash Panda (@phpcodertech) on CodePen.

Also Check:

• Concept of CSS Grid Layout
• How to Include Comments in CSS
• CSS background-image Properties
• CSS Background Image Text Effect

Happy Coding..!