Changing Highlighted Text Color In Text Boxes

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Hi,

Is it possible to change the color of the highlighted text in a text box from the default dark blue color in UE4.26? If so, how?

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Thanks :wink:

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There is no way to do this in UMG.
There’s not even a way to set what part of the text is selected, or ask the textbox what the contents of the selection is.

At the bottom, I think there’s a slate style that controls this, but changing that requires C++. The Slate Style Widget for text boxes does not have a selection/highlight color option.

There is, however, a Slate TextBlockWidgetStyle you can create in the editor. It has a SelectedBackgroundColor property. Then apply it to the innards of your edit box. Unfortunately, in UMG it seems to only be exposed to the Editable Text (Multi-Line) widget, so you might have to build your text field up from that component, or try to dig it out of there somewhere, perhaps with some C++.

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