How to change the highlighting color in JavaFX?

Question

How to change the highlighting color in JavaFX? Usually it is blue with gradients, but I would like to have a green highlighting. I have tried the following:

.root{
    -fx-shadow-highlight-color: #CCFF99;
}

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

Also you can use -fx-highlight-fill on text-area class selector.

.text-area {
    -fx-highlight-fill: green;
}