Theme highlight color when selecting text to quote on Dark color palettes

We are using the Material Dark color palette on our website & have an issue with highlighting texts in posts & replies that I cannot seem to resolve. I’ve tried on a few dark color palettes to the same effect. Below is 2 sets of text. The one below is selected so that the user can “quote” that text. It’s almost impossible to see any difference between it & the non-selected text.

Any thoughts? I can’t seem to find anything here on the forums. I’ve played with the color palette to no avail.

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Can you reproduce the same thing using the “dark” theme here on meta? It seems to work ok for me (Chrome on macOS):

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Good Call. I’m not able to reproduce the issue on these forums.

So I have the Graceful theme installed on my forum. When I change to the default Dark theme, the issue disappears. Has to be something in the theme.

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That’s accurate, I’m overriding the browser’s highlight colors in the theme… which in retrospect is probably not a good idea. I just removed it… so if you update the theme it should be resolved.

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Holy moly! That was a quick response!

The problem is resolved. Thank you so much. I was racking my brain over this.

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