Change SelectionHighlight foreground of a TextBlock

Question

First of all, my case is in UWP apps.

TextBlock has a property named SelectionHighlightColor that allows you specify the concrete color of the Selection Area when you select a text. Just like this:

XAML:

<TextBlock Text="This is a sample text" IsTextSelectionEnabled="True" SelectionHighlightColor="#FFFFE751" Foreground="Black" />

That displays as:

In case you haven't notice, the foreground of selected text is always White even the background of selection area is of light color.

So is there any way to change the foreground of Selected text of TextBlock control?

Echinoderm

Cant see how to do this as TextBlock doesnt have a Template and is a sealed class so cant be extended. It has a SelectedText property and SelectioChanged event but cant see any brushes to change – Kalsomine

The TextBox class in Silverlight had a SelectionForeground property for this.. but the UWP TextBlock class does not seem to have... – Bait

Furthermore neither the RichTextBlock nor the RichEditBox have a property for what you want achieve.. imho with TextBlock there is no way to do that... – Bait

Yes, most possibly there is no way to do this with TextBlock. Maybe I need to code the custom control that implement this effect, but this is totally not worth it. – Echinoderm

I guess with the new Composition APIs in version 1511 you could do the following (just a wild guess): - set highlight color to the inverted value of what you want - get textblock visual - enumerate children to find the hightlight box (I guess there should be one) - invert the box's colors w/ an effect – Cadena