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Customizing your text-selection color with CSS
From the course: Productivity Tips for Web Designers
Customizing your text-selection color with CSS
- Hello, friends, this is Sue Jenkins with productivity tips for web designers. Today, I'll show you how you can customize your website's browser text selection color with CSS. All browsers have default settings for how HTML content displays, including elements like fonts, colors, links, and other content. This means, if you don't add any CSS styles to your HTML markup, different browsers will likely display your content based on that browser's default setting. Most web designers take great care to override these default browser settings by styling and positioning their HTML content with CSS. However, it's a little known fact that you can change the browser's default text selection color with CSS. A browser's text selection color is the color that appears behind selected text. Like customizing the style for your HTML links, styling your text selection color is another really great way of personalizing your visitor's experience on your website. While the color may seem arbitrary, most…
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- 01_01_MakingBlogHeadlinesPop.zip
- 01_02_block_quotes.zip
- 01_04_pairingfonts.zip
- 01_05_linkstyles.zip
- 01_06_Readability.zip
- 02_01_Rulers_Grid_Guides.zip
- 02_02_Shadow_Effects.zip
- 02_03_Type_Shapes.zip
- 02_04_AIWebSetup_Layout_Outlines.zip
- 02_05_AI_Symbols.zip
- 02_06_AI_TextFormattingForTheWeb.zip
- 02_07_AI_GraphicStyles.zip
- 02_08_AI_WorkingWithTextures.zip
- 02_09_AI_TheArtofRoundingCorners.zip
- 02_10_AI_UsingTextWrapAsPadding.zip
- 03_01_Grabbing_Measurements.zip
- 03_02_SmartFilters.zip
- 03_03_Content_Aware_Scale.zip
- 03_05_SamplingColors.zip
- 03_06_Resize.zip
- 03_07_ColorTinting.zip
- 03_08_QuickTeethWhitening.zip
- 03_09_Levels.zip
- 03_10_Optimize.zip
- 04_01_GoogleFonts.zip
- 04_02_bootstrap.zip
- 04_03_master_css.zip
- 04_04_CSSShadows.zip
- 04_05_repeat.zip
- 04_06_TwoMinRotate.zip
- 04_07_stitchedborder.zip
- 04_08_dropcaps.zip
- 04_10_CSSRoundingImages.zip
- 04_09_entities.zip
- 04_11_textselectioncolor.zip
- 04_12_tintedimagerollovers.zip
- 05_02_Externalize_CSS_JS.zip
- 05_04_CodeCleanup.zip
- 05_05_about_fix.zip
- 05_06_validation.zip
- 05_07_CheckingLinks.zip
- 05_08_5_8_Using_Snippets.zip
- 05_09_5_9_EasyPopups.zip
- 05_10_5_10_HideShow.zip
- 05_11_about.zip
- 05_12_SEOchallenge.zip
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Using Google font effects4m 39s
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Commenting code for better clarity6m 19s
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Utilizing master CSS files to speed up design4m 33s
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Adding pizzazz with CSS shadow effects4m 45s
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Incorporating multiple background images4m 54s
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A two-minute trick for rotating objects4m 17s
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Creating stitched borders with CSS3m 50s
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Dropping in CSS drop caps6m 26s
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Coding special characters dependably with entities3m 29s
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Rounding square images using CSS3m 14s
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Customizing your text-selection color with CSS4m 12s
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Tinting images with CSS for cool hover effects6m 1s
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