Question: How to set selection color via code or CSS? about richtextfx HOT 4 CLOSED

Try the following:

.main-selection {
    -fx-fill: yellow;
}

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@Jugen Yes, it helped. Thank you very much.

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@Jugen Could you say if it is possible to set different colors for background and foreground? For example, I want to do color inversion in selection like this:

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It's not currently possible. To do this we'd have to store the current styling of the text, change it for the highlight, and then restore the styling when the selection clears. Also taking into account that the user may cut and paste the selection somewhere else in the the document.

You could implement this yourself by listening for selection changes and then doing the above admin ....

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