Just updated Chrome - cannot see highlighted section

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I just updated Google Chrome. I wanted to copy and paste a few words someone wrote and google them, but the highlighting doesn’t appear. I can highlight passages in other tabs - so it appears to be SDMB-specific. Any ideas if I have a setting that’s weird?

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It’s a known bug in the latest version of Chrome. For whatever reason, it only affects the Mobile theme (Sultantheme’s Responsive vB3-blue). Switching to the regular theme (Straightdope v3.7.3) or switching to another browser will fix it. If you can revert to the older version of Chrome, that will also fix it.

3

Since this keeps coming up every few days, I have added a sticky for it at the top of ATMB.

4

Is there a way to report this to Chrome? I want my “old” version back.

5

I’m at home at the moment and I don’t have Chrome installed on any of my home computers, but according to The Google, this is how to report bugs to Chrome:

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More More.
  3. Click Help and then Report an issue.
  4. Add details, including steps to help us recreate the issue you’re experiencing.
  5. Choose if you want to include more information in your report, like a web address, your email address, or a screenshot.
  6. To submit the report, click Send.

If this isn’t accurate for the current version of Chrome, please let me know.

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Thank goodness I ran across this thread…I was beginning to wonder how I screwed up Chrome.

I am running this version of Chrome, which I think is the latest:
Version 67.0.3396.87 (Official Build) (64-bit)

The above instructions are basically right. Click on the ‘3 dots’ (Chrome menu) in the upper right-hand corner, select ‘Help’, then select ‘Report an Issue’.

The keyboard shortcut is: Alt+Shift+I

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The relevant part of the stylesheet page in question, stvb3r.css, is here:

::selection {
   /* 
   background-color: #e0f2c2;
    color: #4da400;
    */
}

It originally changed the selected text on an SDMB webpage to green-on-bright-green (which I vaguely remember seeing a while ago). The selection of the color was commented out, however, leaving blank “instructions” for the browser. Most browsers seem to think that should mean to leave the selection color alone, but Chrome seems to get confused.

Moving the commenting characters to outside the ::selection element – something like

/*
::selection {
    background-color: #e0f2c2;
    color: #4da400;
}
*/

seems to fix the problem on Chrome. I can’t test that easily on other browsers, though.

8

Well, that’s interesting. I didn’t realize that the text is being selected, just not highlighted.

BTW, the newest Chrome beta doesn’t fix this issue.

9

The current specs for the ::selector pseudo-property are in flux. The current draft says that, if the color is not specified, it must be the same color as the original text. But it also says “The UA should use the OS-default highlight colors when neither color nor background-color has been specified by the author.”

If you do report this bug, I suggest you include the detail that ::selector is specified, but no background-color or color is set. That should function identically to ::selector not being specified.

10

Thanks, all. I’ll switch over to the SD v3.7.3 theme until this gets fixed.