208693 - Selected (highlighted) text is always white text on blue background, even if original text is white on a blue background.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56314

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Kaleb Grace]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030606 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030606 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Whenever I select any text on any webpage, the selected (highlighted) text is
always white text on blue background, even if original text is white on a blue
background.  This is most noticible on a site such as the one I have listed
(http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/).  This makes it difficult many times to see
what text is actually selected.

If you were able to make it call an 'IF' statement before the text/bg color
changing process to check what color the text/bg of the original text is, then
you could apply a white-on-blue scheme to dark text on a light bg, and
blue-on-white scheme to light text on a dark bg.  This is much the same way
Internet Explorer handles selecting text.

Thank you for your time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mouse down on any text anywhere within the browser on any webpage.
2. Drag mouse to select text.
3. Release mouse button.

Actual Results:  
Selected (highlighted) text is always white text on blue background, even if
original text is white on a blue background.

Expected Results:  
Apply a white-on-blue scheme to dark text on a light bg, and blue-on-white
scheme to light text on a dark bg.

Samme occurance happens everytime with both Standard Mozilla Firebird theme and
the MozillaZine (MZ) theme.

Comment 1

[Jeff D. Hanson]

Confirmed:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030604

I have run into sites where the selected text is nearly the exact same color as
the unselected text.  Makes identifying the selection really difficult.

Comment 2

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Confirming, although my selection background colour is gray...

Comment 3

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->Selection

Comment 4

[Rick Bull]

Or how about inverting the text/background colour? That would probably be better
if the background isn't the exact colour needed to trigger the change. Wouldn't
be as consistent with other applications though I suppose. Perhaps a config
option could be add if you think that's necessary.

Comment 5

[Scott Gifford]

This is very similar to bug 50814.  I'll leave it up to the reporter to decide
whether it's a dup or not.

Comment 6

[paul stanton]

this is even worse when the blue background is exactly the blue in the
highlighting
(http://premier.ticketek.com.au/Ticketek/front/inserts/insertTermsOfUse.asp). in
which case it is impossible to see what is selected

Comment 7

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 276678 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Ivan Ičin]

This bug is resolved by fixing the bug 56314

Comment 9

[paul stanton]

i think this is fixed in 2.0?