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CSS

Posted by Matthew Forsythe
Matthew Forsythe
1,416 Points

Pseudo Classes: Focus

I am in the video about Pseudo Classes. Instructor talked about Focus. Still not sure what exactly he means by that.

2 Answers

Zaid Khan
Zaid Khan
12,769 Points
Zaid Khan
Zaid Khan
12,769 Points

Hi Matthew Forsythe

:focus is used to style an element that is being targeted by a mouse or a keyboard.

See the below example:

p:focus {
  background: blue;
}

If you click on the p element its background will turn blue and it will remain blue unless you click anywhere on the browser.

Go ahead and play around with this.

Reggie Williams
STAFF
Reggie Williams
Treehouse Teacher
Reggie Williams
Reggie Williams
Treehouse Teacher

Matthew Forsythe Zaid is correct about targeting elements but it is mostly used for input elements where you are able to select these elements. Check out the first example here where the input turns yellow when it is selected because of the focus rule