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improvement(styling): consistent branded text-selection color app-wide #5389

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fix(styling): resolve markdown-selection conflict, use --white token
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions apps/sim/app/_styles/globals.css
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Expand Up @@ -491,6 +491,13 @@ html.sidebar-booting .sidebar-shell-inner {
outline: none;
}

/* Consistent branded text-selection color everywhere, independent of the
browser/OS default (which dims when the window loses focus). */
::selection {
background-color: var(--selection);
color: var(--white);
}
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body {
background-color: var(--bg);
color: var(--text-primary);
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15 changes: 0 additions & 15 deletions .../[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/rich-markdown-editor.css
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Expand Up @@ -110,13 +110,6 @@
text-decoration: line-through;
}

/* Selecting struck-through text reads in the primary color like any other highlighted text, so the
selection looks uniform (it returns to the muted strike color when deselected). */
.rich-markdown-prose del::selection,
.rich-markdown-prose s::selection {
color: var(--text-primary);
}

.rich-markdown-prose a {
color: var(--brand-secondary);
cursor: pointer;
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text-decoration: underline;
}

/* When a link is selected, drop its blue so it reads like any other highlighted text — the standard
MD-editor convention (Linear, Slack) where the selection takes precedence over the link color.
Only the selected state is affected; an unselected link stays blue. */
.rich-markdown-prose a::selection,
.rich-markdown-prose a ::selection {
color: var(--text-primary);
}

/* Render the gap cursor (e.g. above a leading divider) as a normal vertical caret rather
than ProseMirror's default short horizontal bar, which reads as a stray underscore. */
.rich-markdown-prose .ProseMirror-gapcursor::after {
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