javafx - How to set selected row text color in not focused TableView

Question

My app uses row selection mode (table.setCellSelectionEnabled(false))

In my CSS:

.table-row-cell:selected {
   -fx-background-color: steelblue; 
   -fx-text-fill: red !important;
}

property -fx-background-color works fine, but -fx-text-fill does not. The text color of selected row is black (if TableView is not focused) or white (if TableView is focused).

Answer 1

This works for me, though there may be easier ways:

.table-row-cell:selected {
   -fx-background-color: steelblue; 
}
.table-row-cell:selected .text {
       -fx-fill: red ;

}

Answer 2

For JavaFX 8, based on the Modena stylesheet, the selected row text color is based on the brightness of the background (white for dark backgrounds, black for light backgrounds). I've been able to override this by setting the text background color directly (which then gets used for the text color for selected rows):

.table-row-cell:selected {
   -fx-background-color: steelblue; 
   -fx-text-background-color: red;
}