CSS selection color behaving strangely on Chrome

Question

I\'m trying to change the selection color of my website using the CSS ::selection pseudoelement.

As seen in this jsFiddle, the text is supposed to hav

Answer 1

Possibly to prevent exactly what you are trying to do, it seems like Chrome will change the opacity of the background color of the selection if it's 1. You can cheat this by setting the opacity very close to 1 like (background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.99).

http://jsfiddle.net/ExplosionPIlls/a3gfR/5/