-fx-highlight-fill does not work

[jmak35]

HI Tomas,

There's an issue setting text highlights. If you run your ManualHighlighting.java application and change the "blue" class in manual-highlighting.css to apply "-fx-highlight-text-fill: blue" instead like so:

.blue {
    -fx-highlight-text-fill: blue;
}

I've even tried -fx-highlight-fill, yet you'll notice neither will have any effect on the text when you attempt to apply it. Is this normal behaviour?

Thanks.

[TomasMikula]

It is not normal behavior, but it is a known problem that -fx-highlight-text-fill does not work, since Text#impl_selectionFillProperty() doesn't work properly for Text inside a TextFlow (and it is not public API anyway).

-fx-highlight-fill should work on the whole text area. I don't know if it makes much sense to try to implement it for individual fragments of text. When I select text with different styles, I prefer the highlight to be one color.

[jmak35]

Thanks for the response Tomas. There's definitely a use case for highlighting individual fragments of text.

If you look at the CTRL-F find mechanism within Chrome, it is exactly the kind of function that requires this sort of highlighting. And it is this functionality I'm trying to incorporate into our application using RichTextFX.

Are you saying that it's not possible at all? Or can there be a workaround to get this feature happening?

Thanks.

[TomasMikula]

I specifically meant the color of the background of selected text—that's what -fx-highlight-fill is (althought the name might be confusing). I would rather it be one color.

You can use -fx-background-fill to get what you want.

[jmak35]

Oh my goodness, I didn't even know that css property existed. Thanks so much for that Tomas, that's fixed my issue.

[TomasMikula]

It only exists in RichTextFX.

[JordanMartinez]

I'm creating the CSS cheat sheet and I think renaming highlight-fill would be a smart move.