PluginStatstailwindcss-selection-variant weekly downloads statistics
By philippbosch (4 listings) · npm · Tailwind plugins
Adds a variant for selected text (::selection) to Tailwind CSS
tailwindcss-selection-variant has 47 recorded weekly downloads on npm, a decrease of 78.6% over the past 30 days, ranking #1741 of 2,256 tracked listings.
About tailwindcss-selection-variant
tailwindcss-selection variant
Adds a variant for targeting user-selected text ranges (::selection) to Tailwind CSS.
Example
Given this HTML:
If the user selects parts of the text within this the selection highlight rendered by the browser will be white text on red background.
This is the relevant part of the generated CSS (simplified):
Requirements
This plugin requires Tailwind CSS v1.x.
Installation
or
Usage
In your tailwind.config.js:
Note
Not all CSS properties (and thus Tailwind utilities) can be used with ::selection. See the list of allowable properties on MDN
License
MIT
Description from the npm listing.
- tailwindcss
- tailwindcss-plugin
- selection
- text selection
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Adoption over time
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Listing: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tailwindcss-selection-variant. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.