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<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>CSS Pseudo-Elements Test: active selection, color and background-color</title>
<link rel="author" title="GĂ©rard 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>