Changing the text selection color using CSS?

Question

I'm currently working on a website, and I want to change the text selection color.

I have it somewhat working. This is (part of) the code in my stylesheet:

::selection {   background: #FF0099;   color: black;   text-shadow: none; }  ::-moz-selection {   background: #FF0099;   color: black;   text-shadow: none; } 

It produces a mostly satisfying result. However, in some cases, the highlighting seems to lose its given color (of #FF099), as shown in this picture:

As you can see in the picture above, the text is entirely highlighted using the correct color (#FF099); however, the area between the body text and the title, as well as to the left of the body text, is highlighted with the default color (of blue). How can I keep parts of the highlighting from going back to the default?

edit: larger picture available at http://i.imgur.com/NmZIf.png

a snippet:

::selection {      background: #FF0099;      color: black;      text-shadow: none;  }    ::-moz-selection {      background: #FF0099;      color: #EEE;      text-shadow: none;  }

<p>sample</p>  <br />  <p>sample2</p>

Answer 1

I have wandered upon this problem before and it turns out:

::selection (or whatever selection you might use) 

does not work on an break line tag (br).. remove them and use margins instead. =) Here is an fiddle to demonstrate: Example