Highlighting in Twitter/X Edit/Compose Window Now Invisible

Highlighting in Twitter edit windows no longer appears. This bug was previously in Brave Beta. It’s now very difficult to edit tweets.

Steps to Reproduce: 1

  1. From the Twitter/X app, click “Post.” The edit/compose tweet modal appears.
  2. Enter text. Double-click a word or click and drag to highlight letters to delete or replace. No highlighting appears.

Actual Result:

Expected result:

Reproduces how often:

Always

Operating System and Brave Version:
Mac OS Sequoia 15.1
Version 1.73.89 Chromium: 131.0.6778.69

Additional Information:

I restarted both Chrome and Brave today. Both browsers now have the same issue, which I did not see prior to updating. Safari does not.

@napoleon_dynamite just to clarify for those who I’m tagging, but the highlight does actually happen and functions as it should, though with the caveat that it doesn’t show what is actually highlighted. Hence the “invisible” part mentioned.

I was also struggling with that a little bit ago. Not sure what the issue would be but going to tag in @fanboynz and @Mattches so they can see it later.

I tested on:

  • Windows 11 Pro
  • Brave 1.73.89
  • Happens both with Shields on and Shields off.
  • Doesn’t matter if typing in Messages, replying to a post, or making a post yourself.
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I can repo, in Brave Beta and Nightly. Chrome Canary seems fine.

As a work around, add the following too brave://adblock

*##*:style(-moz-user-select: text !important; -ms-user-select: text !important; user-select: text !important;)

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Chrome Beta has issues with selection, so upstream Chromium

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Tested it, at least on Release, and that doesn’t seem to change anything.

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tried changing out in case was a placeholder to have x.com so went with x.com##:style(-moz-user-select: text !important; -ms-user-select: text !important; user-select: text !important;) as well but nothing changed.

Shouldn’t affect Brave release, the issue from chromium only reached Brave Beta so far.

Was fixed in Chrome Canary, we are aware of it.

@fanboynz negative, it’s happening on Release.

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If unable to replicate, guess can show in video how it is for me. And as said earlier, tried using that syntax you provided but it didn’t change anything.

And if that’s the case, guess maybe waiting game for fix to land

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Okay, noted, I could be wrong

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Same issue on Windows 10 Pro, Brave release v1.73.89. Not an isolated issue.

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Same issue on Windows 11 Pro, Brave release v1.73.89. Glad to see that a fix is in process.

If possible, some code that arranges for the highlight color to have at least some contrast to background color, so highlighted selected text is . . . clearly highlighted.

@80sKid @napoleon_dynamite @OmnipotentYak @289wk

Wanted to give you all a heads up that this should now be resolved. It was fixed in the newest update, 1.73.91.

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Works on mine now too. Thanks for the work on this!