Comments on: CSS Tip: Remove Link and Form Field Outlines

By: nhoss2

nhoss2 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:56:50 +0000

hey, I will be using some of this, I went on my to test one of my sites using the mac’s safari and when i clicked on the search form it was highlighed blue and that looked really ugly with the disign of my site so this will be quite helpfull. thanks

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:03:54 +0000

Steven, what I was referring to when I mentioned tabs was something like, on ProBlogger.net, the “best of ProBlogger” box. As it’s set-up currently, outline:none is in use on the buttons, so when you select the javascript trigger you don’t get the outline, whereas you would have a “focus” outline remaining around the trigger if the attribute was not in use.

By: Steven Clark

Steven Clark — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:11:42 +0000

Matt, if I understand you correctly, that dotted outline is very handy for tabbed browsing. It’s very hard to tab around an interface with these cues suppressed. But I may have read this wrong. From an accessibility / usability angle I’d suggest leaving this dotted outline behaviour, rather than over-riding it to improve “visual design”. Just my 2 cents…