This PR prevents whitespace selections from being highlighted.

Before:
<img
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/79812ae5-6709-4e93-b203-b8f1d5ffbf7b"
alt="image" width="400px" />

After:
<img
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/77540ef9-65df-476e-9cca-b2cef14f5f3a"
alt="image" width="400px" />


Release Notes:

- Fixed an issue where whitespace selections were incorrectly
highlighted.