Remove Safari/Chrome textinput/textarea glow

css cross-browser
Alec Smart picture Alec Smart · Jun 1, 2009 · Viewed 274.9k times · Source

I am wondering if its possible to remove the default blue and yellow glow when I click on a text input / text area using CSS?

Answer

ajm picture ajm · Jun 1, 2009

Edit (11 years later): Don't do this unless you're going to provide a fallback to indicate which element is active. Otherwise, this harms accessibility as it essentially removes the indication showing which element in a document has focus. Imagine being a keyboard user and not really knowing what element you can interact with. Let accessibility trump aesthetics here.

textarea, select, input, button { outline: none; }

Although, it's been argued that keeping the glow/outline is actually beneficial for accessibility as it can help users see which Element is currently focused.

You can also use the pseudo-element ':focus' to only target the inputs when the user has them selected.

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/JohnnyWalkerDesign/xm3zu0cf/

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