userContent.css

::-moz-selection{
background-color: rgb(106, 149, 55) !important;
color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;
}

This code changes the color of the selected detail.
I try to use this code in the XUL file, but it does not work.

example.css and example.xul in example.jar

textbox::-moz-selection{
background-color: rgb(106, 149, 55) !important;
color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;
}

or

.example::-moz-selection{
background-color: rgb(106, 149, 55) !important;
color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;
}

with class="example"

Maybe someone knows what i am missing here?

Hi adodupan -

I just ran your CSS past the jigsaw.W3C CSS validator. It's what I thought:

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The pseudo-element ::-moz-selection can't appear here in the context css21 [-moz-selection]

OTOH, removing one of the ":" gives:

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Unknown pseudo-element or pseudo-class :-moz-selection

Can't help you further without some more context.

Gordon.

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Gordon,
The ::-moz-selection (::selection) pseudo-element applies to the portion of a document that has been highlighted (e.g. selected with the mouse) by the user.
Also read this.

Put this code in the file userChrome.css

::-moz-selection{
background-color: rgb(106, 149, 55) !important;
color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;
}

Effect:





Selected details are green.
I need the same effect in the xul file (in textbox). Any solution?

Guenter, please contact me via email.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/2011 03:42AM by adodupan.

You have a mail with address from sterndaler/yahoo.com.
look also at http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/profile.php?1,5

I think that user.css has a bug.

Hi adodupan -

Thanks for the context. I tried the snippet in my userContent.css, but it would only work on page text, not in text-boxes. (I do remember a thread in the Opera forums about getting css things to work in text-boxes, and it was not encouraging. Sometimes they would work! Half the problem is that inside the text-box is not actually part of the web page )

Having said that, I'm afraid that (for me) XUL is a little bit deeper than a parking-lot puddle -- I'm used to working on web pages rather than the innards of a browser -- although I cannot see any reason why well-formed script should not result in well-formed code which should work. It may get back to the text-box thing in the Opera forum I mentioned.

@Guenter - How would user.css have a bug? Or would that be in the browser itself?

Gordon.

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gordon451

@Guenter - How would user.css have a bug? Or would that be in the browser itself?

Yes a browser bug. I dimply remember that there was a problem.

Guys, thanks for the help.
This code is obviously not working, i'll have to look for a another way.

Guenter, can you download images (example1,2.png) from their current location and attach them to the About CSS topic?
If you can, please, do it.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/2011 03:44AM by adodupan.

Done.

I wonder why Phorum did not let me attach both pictures to a single post?

They were small enough AFAIK.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/2011 02:23AM by guenter.

Ta-DAAAAA! Found it!

OK. It's a My.Opera forum, but the message is the same. Look in here.

The basics are that "...form elements are undefined in the W3C CSS2.1 specification." and "All input form elements are "boxes", but only defined by the User Agent. This means that these boxes are not accessible to the CSS renderer, and their treatment is not defined in the CSS specs (at least at v2.1...)".

But read the full post for the gory details.

Gordon.

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Hey gordon, your Ta-DAAAAA! is worth more than a solution to this sel-problem :)
Some links are useful (opera forum). Thank you.