Assuming you want to set it for all text areas, you could experiment with the global styles selectionColor and focusedTextSelectionColor.
-Jeff At 02:14 8/17/2010, dorkie dork from dorktown wrote: >I've spent soo much time trying to find how to do this. > >I'm using, sparkTextArea.selectAll() to select text but I've found >no way to change the highlight color. > >JP