I recently got bumped with a strange Link behavior. A user had a hyperlink which opened in a new page. When she clicked on it, a dotted border appeared around the Hyperlink as shown below:
I had seen this behavior a couple of times in the past but never thought of a solution until now. After trying a couple of solutions, what worked out was adding the following CSS to the page:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Remove Dotted Border in FireFox</title>
<style type="text/css">
a:focus {
outline: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#" id="anchor1">Click Here</a>
</body>
</html>
I have tested the solution in Firefox 3.0 and above and after adding the CSS, the dotted border does not appear anymore when the link is clicked
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Nice, and so simple. That's something that's always bugged me about Firefox.
Thanks for this, our current app had this problem in Firefox, this fix works a treat. A minor UI issue, but it makes the app look just that bit more polished. :)
Please don't do that, it can make it more difficult for users with disabilities to navigate the site without a mouse. Try setting the :focus style to look the same as the hover/active styles so people unable to use a mouse will still have a visual cue to navigate the site. See this:
http://www.allaccessblogging.com/link-focus.html
Nice suggestion Anonymous and thanks for that link!
Chris and Anonymous - Glad you found it helpful.
Hey, Thanks a ton... This small highlighting border always irritated me a lot :P Thanks you, its gone now ;)
Sweet!
Thank you very much - being new to CSS it would have taken me ages to figure out - thanks again :)
It does appear when I click the above image in my firefox
This WORKS!
I've been looking for this for DAYS! Only tried 'border' and 'border-style' or specifying the border to 0px, but nothing worked.
It's clearly the 'outline' value that controls this pesky 1px dotted border!
One problem - you didn't do it for this tutorial!! Both the 'Click Here' images are styled the same.
You should apply the 'outline:none' to the second image, so people can see what's changed and that it works. Were I not so keen to try something new, I would have discarded this tutorial as there's no example of it actually working.
Great solution though! Well done and thank you!!
thanx a lot....
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