smart-outline

Disabling focus outline without breaking accessibility. This library will only disable the focus outline when the user is using his mouse to navigate your web page. Once a users starts using his keyboard the outline is activated again resulting in the best of both worlds, visually and accessibility wise.

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import smartOutline from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/smart-outline';
</script>

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Disabling focus outline without breaking accessibility. This library will only disable the focus outline when the user is using his mouse to navigate your web page. Once a users starts using his keyboard the outline is activated again resulting in the best of both worlds, visually and accessibility wise.

Demo

Usage

This library supports both AMD and CommonJS module loading and it falls back to a global smartOutline object.

// use RequireJS
var smartOutline = require('smartOutline');

// ES6
import smartOutline from 'smartOutline';

// Load via script tag
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/ambassify/smart-outline/master/main.js"></script>

smartOutline.init();

Initialize with custom configuration

smartOutline.init({ domId: 'my-custom-id' });

Run demo page

Execute following command:

npm run serve

and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:7000.

Unit Tests

npm test

You can also view the online QUnit test page.

Options

Option Type Description
domId string ID that is assigned to the style element that gets injected in the DOM
hideFocusCSS string Overwrite the default CSS to hide the focus outline when a user is using the mouse

Methods

Method Return Description
.init() HTMLElement Check is smart outline is active
.isKeyboardUser() boolean Return true if the current user is a keyboard user
.isEnabled() boolean Check is smart outline is active
.destroy() null Disable smart outline by remove injected style element and all event listeners

Browser Support

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Opera
  • IE 9+
  • Edge