# Anybody else unable to highlight text? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 14, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-unable-to-highlight-text/810554 "2018-03-14T16:03:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-unable-to-highlight-text/810554/1 "2018-03-14T16:03:33Z")
I can still click and drag across text and copy it, but I’m not seeing the blue highlight when I do so. Do I have to kick something in Settings? ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-unable-to-highlight-text/810554/2 "2018-03-14T17:41:49Z")
I had the same thing happen to me. The text is still highlighted (you can copy and paste it), but you’re not 100% sure of what you’ve got highlighted. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-unable-to-highlight-text/810554/3 "2018-03-14T18:10:03Z")
Happened to me one time a couple of days ago. I closed and re-started Chrome and it was back to normal. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-unable-to-highlight-text/810554/4 "2018-03-14T19:12:08Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I can still click and drag across text and copy it, but I’m not seeing the blue highlight when I do so. Do I have to kick something in Settings? What settings? Browser settings? You haven’t told us what browser you’re using. Did you try highlighting text on other websites? ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-unable-to-highlight-text/810554/5 "2018-03-14T19:38:37Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Happened to me one time a couple of days ago. I closed and re-started Chrome and it was back to normal. I had the same problem yesterday, it disappeared when I rebooted my system and it is now back to normal. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-unable-to-highlight-text/810554/6 "2018-03-15T12:21:14Z")
Some browsers work better with a given site than others, that’s why I keep IE11, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Any time your browser seems to be having glitches at a given site, try one of the others. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-unable-to-highlight-text/810554/7 "2018-03-15T18:05:30Z")
What you are describing sounds like a CSS problem–the highlight color got changed to the same color as the main color. Have there been any attempts at working on the style? I guess it could also be a bug in Chrome that does this when it doesn’t load the CSS correctly. I have noticed weird transient effects that happen after an update, but go away after a restart. But not this particular one: usually it’s something to do with an extension acting funny.