Can I change the color Command-F uses to highlight results?

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Can I change the color Command-F uses to highlight results?

When I use Command-F on a web page in Safari to find something, it highlights the term I was looking for--so far, so good. However, nowadays it seems fashionable (especially on news sites) to use a very teensy font. That means I can't detect the light gray highlight. I know that Safari found what I was looking for, because the page moved, but I can't see what it found.

Does anyone know how I can change the highlight color?

I'm envisioning a style sheet that I attach to Safari.

iMac G5 and MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Apr 25, 2006 9:38 AM

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Answer 1

andyBall_uk

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Apr 25, 2006 11:17 AM in response to Ken Collins

Hi Ken

use System Preferences-Appearance-Highlight Colour for this.

no need for css in this case

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Tom Graves

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Apr 25, 2006 11:46 AM in response to andyBall_uk

The Highlight preference only changes the color of highlighted text/objects, as when you drag your mouse over some text. The Find highlight remains gray. I double checked this out when I first read this topic.

EDIT: Correction (partial anyway). In followup testing, I find the find highlight remains gray as long as the Find window is open, but turns to the color you select in System Preferences > Appearance when you close the Find window. I have been doing some research requiring lots of searching through pages and I have been leaving the Find window open, so I never saw the change.

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