Selected text is invisible under Dark High Contrast theme.
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Description
What version of the IDE extension are you using?
26.818.61809
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which IDE are you using?
VS Code
What platform is your computer?
Linux, Plasma, Wayland
What issue are you seeing?
Selected text should become black, but it seems that the selection only changes the background colour.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b6ec9106-a600-4041-8314-5a2773c9f8b5
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Set the IDE theme to Dark High Contrast, and select some text.
What is the expected behavior?
Black text on white background.
Additional information
Below is how VS Code's own "Chat" panel works. Codex should have worked this way.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/27cdabab-96bf-4e14-a24a-e20f86ff26c1
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the selection behavior in the VS Code extension with the Dark High Contrast theme on Linux, Plasma, and Wayland, then trace the UI component that renders selected text. Done means selected text uses black foreground text on a white background, matching VS Code's Chat panel behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, vscode
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 64/100