::selection

The ::selection pseudo-element is the UI element fragments pseudo-element. It is used to select any part of the page that the user has highlighted, including text within an editable text field. This pseudo-element supports the color and background-color properties.

It was proposed as part of CSS3 Selectors, but was removed due to concerns of undefined behaviors (e.g. for nested elements).

Notes

Related specifications

Selectors Level 3

Abandonned in 2009

See also

Related articles

Pseudo-Elements

• ::selection

Selectors

• querySelectorAll

• ID

• Namespaced

• Universal

• equality

• Attribute selector

• hyphen

• prefix

• substring

• suffix

• whitespace

• :-ms-input-placeholder

• :checked

• :disabled

• :empty

• :enabled

• :first-child

• :first-of-type

• :focus

• :in-range

• :indeterminate

• :invalid

• :lang(c)

• :last-of-type

• :nth-child(n)

• :nth-last-child(n)

• :nth-last-of-type(n)

• :nth-of-type(n)

• :only-child

• :only-of-type

• :optional

• :required

• :root

• :target

• :valid

• ::selection

• type

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]