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JonnyNich
JonnyNich

Reputation: 1281

CSS change button style after click

I was wondering if there was a way to change a button's style, in css, after it's been clicked, so not a element:active.

Upvotes: 69

Views: 552555

Answers (9)

mertavcioglu
mertavcioglu

Reputation: 37

You can do it with :focus.

.button {
  border: 1px solid black;
}

.button:focus {
  border: 1px solid red;
}

Upvotes: 2

maryam
maryam

Reputation: 21

all answers is true for hover, focus,... if you want change background-color when you click and be stay that clicked state, you could do this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
  <script>
    const element = document.querySelector("body")
    let taskDone = false
   
    // function for show button
    const elementShow = () => {
      element.innerHTML = `
        <button id="done-button" style="background-color : ${!taskDone 
          ? "#4dd432" : "#fd67ad"};" onclick=doneTask()>
          ${!taskDone ? "Done" : "not done yet"}
        </button>
        `
    }
    elementShow()

    // click Done button
    const doneTask = () => {
      taskDone = (taskDone ? false : true)
      elementShow()
    }
  </script>
</html>

Upvotes: 2

Crabby Fish
Crabby Fish

Reputation: 140

An easy way of doing this is to use JavaScript like so:

element.addEventListener('click', (e => {
    e.preventDefault();

    element.style = '<insert CSS here as you would in a style attribute>';
}));

Upvotes: 2

MrD
MrD

Reputation: 879

Each link has five different states: link, hover, active, focus and visited.

Link is the normal appearance, hover is when you mouse over, active is the state when it's clicked, focus follows active and visited is the state you end up when you unfocus the recently clicked link.

I'm guessing you want to achieve a different style on either focus or visited, then you can add the following CSS:

a { color: #00c; }
a:visited { #ccc; }
a:focus { #cc0; }

A recommended order in your CSS to not cause any trouble is the following:

a
a:visited { ... }
a:focus { ... }
a:hover { ... }
a:active { ... }

You can use your web browser's developer tools to force the states of the element like this (Chrome->Developer Tools/Inspect Element->Style->Filter :hov): Force state in Chrome Developer Tools

Upvotes: 73

Mat&#250;š Šťastn&#253;
Mat&#250;š Šťastn&#253;

Reputation: 831

Try to check outline on button's focus:

button:focus {
    outline: blue auto 5px; 
}

If you have it, just set it to none.

Upvotes: 15

Paul van den Dool
Paul van den Dool

Reputation: 3212

If your button would be an <a> element, you could use the :visited selector.

You are limited however, you can only change:

  • color
  • background-color
  • border-color (and its sub-properties)
  • outline-color
  • The color parts of the fill and stroke properties

I haven't read this article about revisiting the :visited but maybe some smarter people have found more ways to hack it.

Upvotes: 4

CalvT
CalvT

Reputation: 3213

What is the code of your button? If it's an a tag, then you could do this:

a {
  padding: 5px;
  background: green;
}
a:visited {
  background: red;
}
<a href="#">A button</a>

Or you could use jQuery to add a class on click, as below:

$("#button").click(function() {
  $("#button").addClass('button-clicked');
});
.button-clicked {
  background: red;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button id="button">Button</button>

Upvotes: 8

Mikkel Fennefoss
Mikkel Fennefoss

Reputation: 909

It is possible to do with CSS only by selecting active and focus pseudo element of the button. 

button:active{
    background:olive;
}

button:focus{
    background:olive;
}

See codepen: http://codepen.io/fennefoss/pen/Bpqdqx

You could also write a simple jQuery click function which changes the background color.

HTML:

<button class="js-click">Click me!</button>

CSS:

button {
  background: none;
}

JavaScript:

  $( ".js-click" ).click(function() {
    $( ".js-click" ).css('background', 'green');
  });

Check out this codepen: http://codepen.io/fennefoss/pen/pRxrVG

Upvotes: 16

Rich
Rich

Reputation: 3336

If you're looking for a pure css option, try using the :focus pseudo class. 

#style  {
    background-color: red;
}

#style:focus {     
    background-color:yellow;    
}

Upvotes: 97

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