Disable orange outline highlight on focus

Question

I am coding an app using jQuery, jqTouch and phonegap and have run across a persistent problem which arises when a user submits a form using the Go button on the soft keyboard.

Although it is easy to get the cursor to move to the appropriate form input element by using $('#input_element_id').focus(), the orange outline highlight always returns to the last input element on the form. (The highlight does not show up when the form is submitted using the form submit button.)

What I need is to find a way either to disable the orange highlight completely or else make it move to the same input element as the cursor.

So far, I have tried adding the following to my CSS:

.class_id:focus {
    outline: none;
}

This works in Chrome but not on the emulator or on my phone. I have also tried editing the jqTouch theme.css to read:

ul li input[type="text"] {
    -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); and
    -webkit-focus-ring-color:  rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
}

With no effect. I have also tried each of the following additions to the AndroidManifest.xml file:

android:imeOptions="actionNone"
android:imeOptions="actionSend|flagNoEnterAction"
android:imeOptions="actionGo|flagNoEnterAction"

None of which have any effect.

Update: I have done some more troubleshooting with this and to date have found:

1. The outline property works only on Chrome, not on the Android browser.

2. The -webkit-tap-highlight-color property does in fact work on the Android browser, though not on Chrome. It disables the highlight on focus as well as on tapping.

3. The -webkit-focus-ring-color property does not seem to work on either browser.

Answer 1

Try:

-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); 
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;  // i.e. Nexus5/Chrome and Kindle Fire HD 7''