Why does the CSS3 pseudo ::selection not change the color for all parts?

Question

Why does the CSS3 pseudo-element selection not change all parts of the highlight? As you can see in this screenshot I have selected part of the page, and parts of the selection are the default bright blue color:

This is the CSS that I'm using, it is at the top of my CSS file:

::selection { background: #3B3B3B; color: #fff; }
::-moz-selection { background: #3B3B3B; color: #fff; }

It seems like the highlight for inputs (text, checkboxes, etc.) and white space does not change. Does anyone know why this is, and is there a way to change it for every part of the page so the highlight color is consistent? I'm using Chrome.

Answer 1

The ::selection pseudo-element doesn't work properly in Chrome/Safari. <input> elements will be the standard highlight color. It's a very old and still outstanding bug:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38943

The only workaround I've been able to come up with is using contenteditable elements instead of <input> elements.

Here's a demo I created: http://jsfiddle.net/ThinkingStiff/FcCgA/
And a post I wrote about it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8529323/918414