Well, I just made a class to change the textField selection color. It manipulates the ColorMatrixFilter to change the colors of the unselected text, selection background and selected text. The source is in my SVN, http://code.hellokeita.in/public/trunk/as3/br/hellokeita/utils/TextFieldColor.as And the usage is really simple too. var textColor:uint = 0xff0000; // unselected text color var selecti