<![CDATA[Selected text color issue?]]>I don’t know when this started but when I select using Alt I get a different color than expected.

This is normal selection without using Alt.
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But using Alt to select text, I get an different background color such as on line 4, note below
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The even more odd part is that this color is only present when notepad++ is the active window. If another window is active then it goes back to the normal selected color, as shown below.

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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25443/selected-text-color-issueRSS for NodeSat, 18 Jul 2026 06:05:34 GMTThu, 01 Feb 2024 21:31:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Selected text color issue? on Fri, 02 Feb 2024 05:21:51 GMT]]>@PeterJones Legit, you the man.
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There were many styles I was missing so I’ve updated my styles.xml with them all now.

Thanks.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92573https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92573Fri, 02 Feb 2024 05:21:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Selected text color issue? on Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:20:12 GMT]]>@Diehl-WithIt said in Selected text color issue?:

I don’t know when this started but when I select using Alt I get a different color than expected.

Starting in 8.6, Column-Select (Alt+Select) and Multi-select are conjoined more intimately. And there is a specific Style for the Multiple Selection highlight, so you can tell the difference.

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Your Style Configurator screenshots don’t show the Multi-selected text entry that I’ve clicked on in the screenshot, which means your copy of stylers.xml is out of date.

  • Exit Notepad++ completely.
  • Open Notepad++ with files c:\program files\notepad++\stylers.model.xml and %AppData%\Notepad++\stylers.xml
  • In the <GlobalStyles> sections at the end, copy the <WidgetStyle name="Multi-edit carets color" ... line from stylers.model.xml into your ``%AppData%\Notepad++\stylers.xml` and save.
  • Close Notepad++ completely.
  • Open Notepad++. Your Alt+Selection text should now be in bgcolor 0xC0C0C0, and your Style Configurator will now see the Multi-selected text entry available for changing the colors on.

For users who are using a different theme than the default (stylers.xml), you will need to do the same, but using %AppData%\Notepad++\themes\ThemeNameHere.xml as the destination file.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92569https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92569Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:20:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Selected text color issue? on Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:38:59 GMT]]>@rdipardo I do not. I have the following installed:
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Sadly i didn’t think about removing my plugins to test but did so now and I’m still experiencing the same behavior without any plugin installed.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92568https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92568Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:38:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Selected text color issue? on Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:11:30 GMT]]>Do you have the CSVLint plugin installed?

I don’t know when this started . . .

If I guessed rightly, then v8.6 is the answer: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90967

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92567https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92567Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:11:30 GMT