Link text isn't readable when text is selected

[querkmachine]

The underline styles, including colours, are maintained when text is highlighted, however the colour of the text changes. This can make links difficult to read when the text is highlighted.

[querkmachine]

I've given this a poke and it doesn't seem that there is a good way of fixing this. Overriding properties of the underline (colour, thickness, offset) don't seem to do anything, and setting text-decoration: none removes the highlight effect entirely.

This is the case on all of the browsers I tested. There appears to be restrictions on allowed styles, in the same manner that styling :visited links is restricted, however the allowlist includes text-decoration properties¹. It appears that browsers only interoperably support setting color and background-color.

Footnotes

1. https://drafts.csswg.org/css-pseudo/#highlight-styling ↩