improperly highlighting on changing text color

[Tony]

When user changes the color of the text a couple of times - the text remains blue, but the highlighting is gone - the user's color selection is not displayed until you tap into the screen or send the message. This issue only occurs in IE. It works fine for some colors. steps to recreate:

1. CKEditor demo
2. enter a couple of words
3. highlight all of the text and change the color(eg. Red)
4. then select a word or two and change them to another color(eg. Orange)
5. notice the text is changed to blue- and the highlighting is removed

[Jakub Ś]

This "problem" can also be reproduced in HTML as well. In fact this isn't a bug but way how IE highlights these colours.

Please try using below code on HTML page and you will get same result when opening it in IE and highlighting orange word.

<p><span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)">test test</span><span style="color:rgb(255, 165, 0)"> test </span><span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"> test test</span></p>

If you don't like it you can try changing it:
​http://css-tricks.com/overriding-the-default-text-selection-color-with-css/
​http://www.paulund.co.uk/change-browser-highlight-colour
​http://www.codeitpretty.com/2012/11/set-custom-text-highlight-color-with-css.html