If you run the following demo, and click+hold(hold for 1sec before releasing the click) on the third link, you will see they get the same styles of :focus pseudo selector from the css(red outline).
.ext:focus {
outline: 1px dotted red;
}
1. Get me in focus with tab to see black outline -- Browser default
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<a class="ext" href="#">2. Get me in focus with tab to see red outline -- ext css </a>
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<a class="ext" href="#">3. Click+hold to see red outline -- supposody gets me in focus </a>
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4. Click+hold to see black outline -- doesnt work as expected!
My gut feeling is that when you click+hold on any focusable element, it gets that element in focus, thats why you see a red dotted outline on #3 link.
Now, then why in the fourth link when you click+hold you don't see a black outline?
It is true that when you click on a focusable element it gets infocus as well, but your misconception is that the browsers internally apply the following css:
a:focus {
outline: 2px solid black;
}
In reality the browsers use the focus-visible css property like this:
a:focus-visible {
outline: 2px solid black;
}
focus-visible is a css4 level property recently introduced by most browsers(except safari). It has been designed specifically for what have you observed. This behaviour gets even more apparent in case of input fields(check out MDN's example), where you don't have to hold the click to see the result. In the case of anchor tags focus-visible applies style to only those elements who've been focused through the keyboard not the mouse. It should be noted that the button element behaves similar to a element, but the input element treats focus-visible identical to focus, that is even on click it gets the styles mention in input:focus-visible{...}.
Example:
input:focus-visible, button:focus-visible {
outline: 2px dotted black;
}
<input type="text" value="Click/tab shows outline">
<button>Only tab shows outline</button>
Moreover, you can inspect element in your browser and toggle element's state to focus-visible. You will see the following styles being applied by the user-agent(chrome):
a:-webkit-any-link:focus-visible {
outline-offset: 1px;
}
user agent stylesheet
a:-webkit-any-link {
color: -webkit-link;
cursor: pointer;
text-decoration: underline;
}
user agent stylesheet
:focus-visible {
outline: -webkit-focus-ring-color auto 1px;
}
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How to remove the border highlight on an input text element
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Can anyone explain how to remove the orange or blue border (outline) around text/input boxes? I think it only happens on Chrome to show that the input box is active. Here's the input CSS I'm using:
input {
background-color: transparent;
border: 0px solid;
height: 20px;
width: 160px;
color: #CCC;
}
This border is used to show that the element is focused (i.e. you can type in the input or press the button with Enter). You can remove it with outline property, though:
textarea:focus, input:focus{
outline: none;
}
You may want to add some other way for users to know what element has keyboard focus though for usability.
Chrome will also apply highlighting to other elements such as DIV's used as modals. To prevent the highlight on those and all other elements as well, you can do:
*:focus {
outline: none;
}
⚠️ Accessibility warning
Please notice that removing outline from input is an accessibility bad practice. Users using screen readers will not be able to see where their pointer is focused at. More info at a11yproject
The current answer didn't work for me with Bootstrap 3.1.1. Here's what I had to override:
.form-control:focus {
border-color: inherit;
-webkit-box-shadow: none;
box-shadow: none;
}
input:focus {
outline:none;
}
This will do. Orange outline won't show up anymore.
<input style="border:none" >
Worked well for me. Wished to have it fixed in html itself ... :)
I've found the solution.
I used: outline:none; in the CSS and it seems to have worked. Thanks for the help anyway. :)
this remove orange frame in chrome from all and any element no matter what and where is it
*:focus {
outline: none;
}
Solution
*:focus {
outline: 0;
}
PS: Use outline:0 instead of outline:none on focus. It's valid and better practice.
Please use the following syntax to remove the border of text box and remove the highlighted border of browser style.
input {
background-color:transparent;
border: 0px solid;
height:30px;
width:260px;
}
input:focus {
outline:none;
}
Set
input:focus{
outline: 0 none;
}
"!important" is just in case. That's not necessary. [And now it's gone. –Ed.]
This will definitely work. Orange outline will not show anymore..
Common for all tags:
*:focus {
outline: none;
}
Specific to some tag, ex: input tag
input:focus {
outline:none;
}
I found out that you can also use:
input:focus{
border: transparent;
}
When I click somewhere else the border disappears, I tried to use onfocus: none, but that didn't help. How to make this ugly button border disappear when I click on it?
input[type=button] {
width: 120px;
height: 60px;
margin-left: 35px;
display: block;
background-color: gray;
color: white;
border: none;
}
<input type="button" value="Example Button">
Using outline: none; you can remove that border in chrome.
<style>
input[type=button] {
width: 120px;
height: 60px;
margin-left: 35px;
display: block;
background-color: gray;
color: white;
border: none;
outline: none;
}
</style>
Focus outline in Chrome and FF:
removed button focus outline:
button,
input[type=button] {
outline: none;
}
button::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type=button]::-moz-focus-inner {
border: 0;
}
/*
Accessibility (A11Y)
Don't forget! User accessibility is important
*/
button:focus,
input[type=button]:focus {
/* your custom focused styles here */
}
It works for me simply :)
*:focus {
outline: 0 !important;
}
This one worked for me
button:focus {
border: none;
outline: none;
}
Set both the outline and the box-shadow properties of the button to none and make them important.
input[type=button] {
outline: none !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
}
The reason for setting the values to **important** is that, if you are using other CSS libraries or frameworks like Bootstrap, it might get overridden.
The outline property is what you need. It's shorthand for setting each of the following properties in a single declaration:
outline-style
outline-width
outline-color
You could use outline: none;, which is suggested in the accepted answer. You could also be more specific if you wanted:
button {
outline-style: none;
}
button:focus{outline:none !important;}
add !important if it is used in Bootstrap
To avoid the problem caused when you change the outline property on a focus, is to give a visual effect when the user Tab on the input button or click on it.
In this case is a submit type, but you can apply to a type="button" too.
input[type=submit]:focus {
outline: none !important;
background-color: rgb(208, 192, 74);
}
Given the html below:
<button class="btn-without-border"> Submit </button>
In the css style do the following:
.btn-without-border:focus {
border: none;
outline: none;
}
This code will remove button border and will disable button border focus when the button is clicked.
As many others have mentioned, selector:focus {outline: none;} will remove that border but that border is a key accessibility feature that allows for keyboard users to find the button and shouldn't be removed.
Since your concern seems to be an aesthetic one, you should know that you can change the color, style, and width of the outline, making it fit into your site styling better.
selector:focus {
outline-width: 1px;
outline-style: dashed;
outline-color: red;
}
Shorthand:
selector:focus {
outline: 1px dashed red;
}
It's greatly simple than you think. When the button is focussed, apply the outline property, like this:
button:focus {
outline: 0 !important;
}
But when I use none value, it doesn't work for me.
Removing nessorry accessible event not a good idea in up to standard web developments.
either way if you looking for a solution removing just the outline doesn't solve the problem. you also have to remove the blue color shadow. for specific scenarios use a separate class name to isolate the this special style to your button.
.btn.focus, .btn:focus {
outline: 0;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.2rem rgba(0, 123, 255, .25);
}
Better do this
.remove-border.focus, .remove-border:focus {
outline: 0;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.2rem rgba(0, 123, 255, .25);
}
Removing the outline is an accessibility nightmare. People tabbing using keyboards will never know what item they're on.
Best to leave it, as most clicked buttons will take you somewhere anyway, or if you HAVE to remove the outline then isolate it a specific class name.
.no-outline {
outline: none;
}
Then you can apply that class whenever you need to.
Another alternative to restore outline when using the keyboard is to use :focus-visible. However, this doesn't work on IE :https://caniuse.com/?search=focus-visible.
It's also good note that outline: none can be applied to both <button> tags and input[type=button] to remove the browser-applied border on click.
Since Chrome and Mozilla added this line not only around buttons but also around linked text, I use on my site this:
a:focus {outline: none;
}
Works for both browsers, links, and buttons.
Btw, this did not (27.4.2021):
input[type=button]{
outline:none;
}
input[type=button]::-moz-focus-inner {
border: 0;
}
how can I remove light dashed border of the a tag on focus mode?
when you click a link, it becomes dashed.
I set tabindex:-1 , but it did not make sense.
I want to whether I can remove it?
do you mean something like:
a:active {
outline: none;
}
a:focus {
-moz-outline-style: none;
}
I am using a bit of HTML in my IPhone application. I don't have much idea about HTML.
When we touch any hyperlink(ahref in HTML) there is a blue selection color that appears in "li" which contains ahref. How can we disable it?
You can override the behaviour by specifying your custom color for links via css:
a { color:green; }
Or based on their status eg active, clicked, etc:
a:active { color:green; }
a:visited { color:red; }
a:hover { color:orange; }
I'm not 100% sure, but if the text is truly being selected, and you're seeing a blue color, then the fix would be to apply a style like this:
li::selection {
background-color: transparent;
}
li::-webkit-selection {
background-color: transparent;
}
li::-moz-selection {
background-color: transparent;
}
That's only if it truly is a selection that's occuring. Mind you, only the ::selection and maybe the :-webkit-selection could possibly apply to an iPhone. ::-moz-selection would be for a Firefox browser.