When an HTML element is ‘focused’ (currently selected/tabbed into), many browsers (at least Safari and Chrome) will put a blue border around it.
For the layout I am working on, this is distracting and does not look right.
<input type="text" name="user" class="middle" id="user" tabindex="1" />
Firefox does not seem to do this, or at least, will let me control it with:
border: x;
If someone can tell me how IE performs, I would be curious.
Getting Safari to remove this little bit of flare would be nice.
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In your case, try:
input.middle:focus {
outline-width: 0;
}
Or in general, to affect all basic form elements:
input:focus,
select:focus,
textarea:focus,
button:focus {
outline: none;
}
In the comments, Noah Whitmore suggested taking this even further to support elements that have the contenteditable
attribute set to true
(effectively making them a type of input element). The following should target those as well (in CSS3 capable browsers):
[contenteditable="true"]:focus {
outline: none;
}
Although I wouldn’t recommend it, for completeness’ sake, you could always disable the focus outline on everything with this:
*:focus {
outline: none;
}
Keep in mind that the focus outline is an accessibility and usability feature; it clues the user into what element is currently focused.