How to remove outline border from input button

Question

When I click somewhere else the border disappears, I tried to use onfocus: none, but that didn't help. How to make this ugly button border disappear when I click on it?

input[type=button] {
  width: 120px;
  height: 60px;
  margin-left: 35px;
  display: block;
  background-color: gray;
  color: white;
  border: none;
}

<input type="button" value="Example Button">

Moresque

looks fine on my mozilla browser – Philanthropic

The focus rectangle is supposed to help the user observe that the click was effective and thereby prevent him from accidentally clicking twice. So are you sure you are solving a problem and not creating one? – Erikerika

A good read a11yproject.com/posts/never-remove-css-outlines – Bulgar

Answer 1

Using outline: none; you can remove that border in chrome.

<style>
input[type=button] {
    width: 120px;
    height: 60px;
    margin-left: 35px;
    display: block;
    background-color: gray;
    color: white;
    border: none;
    outline: none;
}
</style>

Aedes

On Chrome, I had to add outline: none; rule to input[type="button"]:focus rather than input[type="button"]. – Minimus

Works in Microsoft Edge too – Emmery

Answer 2

Focus outline in Chrome and FF:

removed button focus outline:

button,
input[type=button] {
  outline: none;
}
button::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type=button]::-moz-focus-inner {
  border: 0;
}

/*
  Accessibility (A11Y)
  Don't forget! User accessibility is important
*/
button:focus,
input[type=button]:focus {
  /* your custom focused styles here */
} 

Eisler

Answer 3

It works for me simply :)

*:focus {
    outline: 0 !important;
}

Bokbokhara

This is the only answer that worked for me, but how would you do it without !important? I've heard from a lot of sources that you should only use it only if absolutely necessary. – Athey

I did this button styling for whole application in external css. If u want ignore it u can do it with #id in css using that in each button: #button-tyle{ outline: 0; } or use same style for all buttons without #id in each button, here is a demo link: input[type="button"] { width:70px; height:30px; margin-left:72px; margin-top:15px; display:block; background-color:gray; color:white; border: none; outline: 0; } – Bokbokhara

To remove blue background color onclick i added -> *{ -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent !important; } – Lawler

This worked first time perfectly - Thanks! – Immolation

Answer 4

Set both the outline and the box-shadow properties of the button to none and make them important.

input[type=button] {
    outline: none !important;
    box-shadow: none !important;
} 

The reason for setting the values to **important** is that, if you are using other CSS libraries or frameworks like Bootstrap, it might get overridden.

Bathsheeb

The box-shadow works for me on Edge, nice : ) – Monck

Answer 5

This one worked for me

button:focus {
    border: none;
    outline: none;
}

Decumbent

Answer 6

The outline property is what you need. It's shorthand for setting each of the following properties in a single declaration:

• outline-style
• outline-width
• outline-color

You could use outline: none;, which is suggested in the accepted answer. You could also be more specific if you wanted:

button {
    outline-style: none;
}

Preconize

Answer 7

button:focus{outline:none !important;}

add !important if it is used in Bootstrap

Dunston

I think the asker already tried this, after all, the question says tried onfocus none, but didn't help. – Resuscitator

Answer 8

To avoid the problem caused when you change the outline property on a focus, is to give a visual effect when the user Tab on the input button or click on it.

In this case is a submit type, but you can apply to a type="button" too.

input[type=submit]:focus {
    outline: none !important;
    background-color: rgb(208, 192, 74);
}

Morganmorgana

Answer 9

Given the html below:

<button class="btn-without-border"> Submit </button>

In the css style do the following:

.btn-without-border:focus {
    border: none;
    outline: none;
}

This code will remove button border and will disable button border focus when the button is clicked.

Devaney

Answer 10

As many others have mentioned, selector:focus {outline: none;} will remove that border but that border is a key accessibility feature that allows for keyboard users to find the button and shouldn't be removed.

Since your concern seems to be an aesthetic one, you should know that you can change the color, style, and width of the outline, making it fit into your site styling better.

selector:focus {
  outline-width: 1px;
  outline-style: dashed;
  outline-color: red;
}

Shorthand:

selector:focus {
  outline: 1px dashed red;
}

Fraze

Answer 11

It's greatly simple than you think. When the button is focussed, apply the outline property, like this:

button:focus {
    outline: 0 !important;
}

But when I use none value, it doesn't work for me.

Expressway

Answer 12

Removing nessorry accessible event not a good idea in up to standard web developments. either way if you looking for a solution removing just the outline doesn't solve the problem. you also have to remove the blue color shadow. for specific scenarios use a separate class name to isolate the this special style to your button.

.btn.focus, .btn:focus {
    outline: 0;
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.2rem rgba(0, 123, 255, .25);
}

Better do this

.remove-border.focus, .remove-border:focus {
        outline: 0;
        box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.2rem rgba(0, 123, 255, .25);
 }

Venatic

Answer 13

Removing the outline is an accessibility nightmare. People tabbing using keyboards will never know what item they're on.

Best to leave it, as most clicked buttons will take you somewhere anyway, or if you HAVE to remove the outline then isolate it a specific class name.

.no-outline {
  outline: none;
}

Then you can apply that class whenever you need to.

Whelm

Answer 14

Another alternative to restore outline when using the keyboard is to use :focus-visible. However, this doesn't work on IE :https://caniuse.com/?search=focus-visible.

Semipostal

Answer 15

Since Chrome and Mozilla added this line not only around buttons but also around linked text, I use on my site this:

a:focus {outline: none;
}

Works for both browsers, links, and buttons.

Btw, this did not (27.4.2021):

input[type=button]{
   outline:none;
}
input[type=button]::-moz-focus-inner {
   border: 0;
}

Terribly

Answer 16

It's also good note that outline: none can be applied to both <button> tags and input[type=button] to remove the browser-applied border on click.

Nepil

Answer 17

Use the below css:

.btn {
  border: none !important;
  background-color: white;
}

Try with this, you have to make

border: none !important

Gillard