CSS Color Rendering Different in Safari

css color rendering different in safari

Sorry, but there’s really nothing you can do about it.

• Each browser has its own rendering engine, and they render colors differently.
• Users rarely visit a website in more than one browser, and as a result will probably not notice.
• As I said, there’s nothing you can do to change it. Just pick a color that looks fine in the different browsers and continue. I wish I could offer you a better answer but that’s really all there is to it!

Chrome renders colours differently from Safari and Firefox

I recently posted a similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6338077/google-chrome-for-mac-css-colors-and-display-profiles

As Andrew Marshall answered there, this is a known issue: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44872

CSS color difference between Browsers

Restarting Chrome:
Chrome can displays the colours incorrectly when you change to a monitor that's different from what was used when Chrome was started.

Its an color profile issue

Chrome :

Also maybe try force color profile to sRGB in chrome://flags

Firefox :

You can also change the behavior of Firefox by going to the url: about:config, in Firefox ,then find gfx.color_management.mode setting and changing it to 1 or 0 as the default is 2.

Safari :

Safari has access to your monitor's ICC profile that it will use it to provide the best correspondence in sRGB.

There is no setting in Safari to make it behave like others.

EXTRA:

'On mac, you can check it with the DigitalColor Meter utility you've got in you Apps > Utilities. Set it to Display in sRGB to see the colors measured. Safari will always display the correct sRGB color, while Chrome and Firefox will be off with an non standard sRGB color profile.

If you set your monitor's color profile to an standard sRGB one, then all browsers will show the correct values.' @Kaiido

::selection background-color and color rendering in browsers

According to quirksmode.org, -webkit-selection and -moz-selection are indeed available. I just tested it with Chrome (18) and Firefox (13) and can confirm that it works with Firefox, but I didn't have success with -webkit-selection on Chrome (it ignored it), and according to this SO question it doesn't exist (and the answer says that ::selection should also work on all browser, but doesn't for me, too).

As already metioned in this answer, Chrome forces the selection to be transparent, but you can work around this using

background:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.99);

For more details, checkout the linked answer by tw16

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Furthermore, this works for me on FF:

::selection { /* stuff */ }
::-moz-selection { /* stuff */}

But this does not:

::selection, ::-moz-selection { /* stuff */ }

But maybe this is not related to ::selection but does apply on all pseudo elements, couldn't find an answer to that.

Hex colors display differently between Chrome and Safari on Mac

This is because Safari has access to your monitor's ICC profile, and that it will use it to provide the best correspondence in sRGB.

On mac, you can check it with the DigitalColor Meter utility you've got in you Apps > Utilities. Set it to Display in sRGB to see the colors measured. Safari will always display the correct sRGB color, while Chrome and Firefox will be off with an non standard sRGB color profile.

If you set your monitor's color profile to an standard sRGB one, then all browsers will show the correct values.

There is no setting in Safari to make it behave like others, and I didn't found a way in chrome either ; Firefox has some flags about color management, but I think it's only about images' embedded ICC profiles, not the monitor's one.

[edit],

Actually FF's flags gfx.color_management.XXXX do also apply to the rendered colors, and will provide the same behavior as Safari. But, it seems there are bugs when setting it (e.g canvas' getImageData() method will return the displayed sRGB values instead of the RGB ones that has been authored).

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