Try selecting the innocent-looking text over at this page using Firefox.
Spoiler: What happens is that you can see the word "Google" appear. This hack utilizes the CSS3 "selection" pseudo-element. Each portion of letters in the HTML receives its own class, like <span class='color-51'>foo</span>. Stylesheet definitions like the following handle the rest:
... .color-51::selection { color: rgb(79, 106, 115); background: rgb(79, 106, 115) } .color-51::-moz-selection { color: rgb(79, 106, 115); background: rgb(79, 106, 115) } ...
A tool to create your own selectable text this way is available, too.
[Thanks Mukthar and Ionut!]
>> More posts
Advertisement
This site unofficially covers Google™ and more with some rights reserved. Join our forum!