Stylesheets - Re: a:focus

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Re: a:focus

Remi Villatel

2005-10-31, 10:27 pm

Els wrote:

[color=darkred]
> Why not?
> When tabbing from link to link, it makes it much easier to see which
> link is selected.

Yes but it's already defined at browser level and has some kind of
system consistancy: it's a dotted frame everywhere in the GUI. So, in
order not to fool the user, it's better to leave it this way. Unless the
standard focus becomes unusable, there's no valid reason to change it.
It's not meant to be pretty... if the purpose of CSS is to beautify
everything. ;-)

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kchayka

2005-10-31, 10:28 pm

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Remi Villatel wrote:

> Els wrote:
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> Yes but it's already defined at browser level and has some kind of
> system consistancy: it's a dotted frame everywhere in the GUI.

Setting :focus rules doens't mean the focus outline (that dotted frame)
goes away.

> It's not meant to be pretty...

It's meant to be useful. Keep in mind, too, that web page color schemes
rarely match the user's GUI. The focus outline can be very hard to see
on a lot of sites.

I usually set :focus and :hover the same. Then those who use keyboard
navigation get pretty much the same interactivity that mouse users do.

BTW, I'm a keyboard user, so I have some personal experience with this.

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