Bug 272583

Summary:

Scroll to text fragment highlight style can create unreadable text, especially in dark mode

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Robert Flack <flackr>

Component:

WebKit Misc.

Assignee:

Tim Horton <thorton>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

a_protyasha, karlcow, megan_gardner, simon.fraser, thorton, webkit-bug-importer, wenson_hsieh

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

Safari 17

Hardware:

Unspecified

OS:

Unspecified

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Appearance of the scroll to text fragment on Safari 17.4.1	none
the highlight and what selection does side by side	none

Robert Flack

Reported 2024-04-12 05:39:55 PDT

Created attachment 470891 [details] Appearance of the scroll to text fragment on Safari 17.4.1 I discovered when I was following a link to a steam community guide that on Safari the scroll to text fragment styling wasn't overriding the font color which can result in something nearly unreadable on some sites. For example, if you navigate to the following link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?l=german&id=699781872#:~:text=why%20am%20I%20constantly%20losing%20money On chrome, the text color is changed to black which makes the text easily readable against the highlight color. On Safari, the text color is not changed resulting in very little contrast between the highlight and the text as shown in the attached image.

Attachments
Appearance of the scroll to text fragment on Safari 17.4.1 (54.04 KB, image/png) 2024-04-12 05:39 PDT, Robert Flack	no flags	Details
the highlight and what selection does side by side (50.11 KB, image/png) 2024-04-16 02:03 PDT, Karl Dubost	no flags	Details
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Karl Dubost

Comment 1 2024-04-16 02:03:10 PDT

Created attachment 470935 [details] the highlight and what selection does side by side Here I added a selection just beside to show the difference. That's a good point.

Radar WebKit Bug Importer

Comment 2 2024-04-16 02:03:35 PDT

<rdar://problem/126539910>

Tim Horton

Comment 3 2025-10-21 16:57:15 PDT

Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/52779

EWS

Comment 4 2025-10-21 21:53:53 PDT

Committed 301930@main (32caf7b3a6b7): <https://commits.webkit.org/301930@main> Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #52779 and removing active labels.

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