GUISkin.settings

Description

Generic settings for how controls should behave with this skin.

    // Sets the selection color to cyan

    var str : String = "This is a string with\ntwo lines of text";

    function OnGUI() {
        GUI.skin.settings.selectionColor = Color.cyan;
        str = GUILayout.TextArea(str);
    }

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour {
    public string str = "This is a string with\ntwo lines of text";
    void OnGUI() {
        GUI.skin.settings.selectionColor = Color.cyan;
        str = GUILayout.TextArea(str);
    }
}