Use Custom Color To Highlight Searched Text In Webview

After a lot of searching for documentation on how this can be done I am finally posting this on SO. Currently in my app I have implemented a search feature to search text in webvi

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Does this do the trick for you: http://danbarnett.net/how-to-hide-android-webview-highlight-border-or-change-its-color-142.html

From the sounds of it you can't actually change the default but you can work around it, or over-ride it using jquery and some css..

And some more Google results of interest: http://www.icab.de/blog/2010/01/12/search-and-highlight-text-in-uiwebview/

And an overflow question with good answer: Android webview: highlight a specific word in a page using javascript?