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- /css/css-pseudo/active-selection-018.html - WPT Dashboard Interop Dashboard
 
 
<!DOCTYPE html>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>CSS Pseudo-Elements Test: active selection, color and background-color</title>
  <link rel="author" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/">
  <link rel="match" href="reference/active-selection-018-ref.html">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="support/highlights.css">
  <style>
  div
    {
      color: green;
      font-size: 300%;
    }
  span
    {
      color: red;
    }
  div::selection
    {
      background-color: white;
    }
  /*
  This div::selection rule is necessary. Without it,
  "Selected Text" would be using the OS-default
  highlight colors for ::selection
  because neither color nor background-color would have
  been specified by the author.
  */
  span::selection
    {
      color: white;
    }
  </style>
  <script>
  function startTest()
  {
  var targetRange = document.createRange();
  /* We first create an empty range */
  targetRange.selectNodeContents(document.getElementById("parent"));
  /* Then we set the range boundaries to the children of div#parent */
  window.getSelection().addRange(targetRange);
  /* Finally, we now select such range of content */
  }
  </script>
  <body onload="startTest();">
  <p>Test passes if each glyph of "Selected Text" is green, if background color of each glyph of "Selected Text" is white and if there is <strong>no red</strong>.
  <div id="parent" class="highlight_reftest">Selected Text <span>FAIL</span></div>