A Super Weird CSS Bug That Affects Text Selection

You know how you can style (to some degree) selected text with ::selection? Well, Jeff Starr uncovered a heck of a weird CSS bug.

If you:

1. Leave that selector empty
2. Link it from an external stylesheet (rather than <style> block)

Selecting text will have no style at all. 😳😬😕

In other words, if you <link rel="stylesheet" ...> up some CSS that includes these empty selectors:

::-moz-selection {}::selection {}

Then text appears to be un-selectable. You actually … Read article

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