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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:09:59+00:00

As you can see from the example below, I have a black background and

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As you can see from the example below, I have a black background and red links to emphasize this problem of dotted borders showing up on my links when they are clicked. I added border-style:none but it doesn’t seem to have any effect. Is there some other way to remove the dotted border appearing around the links when they are clicked?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body 
{
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    font-weight:normal;
    font-size:12pt;
    font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, serif, sans-serif;
    background:black;
}

#linksouter
{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border-style:solid;
    border-width:0px;
    position:absolute;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
    width: 80px;
    text-align:left;
}
#linksinner
{
    margin: 80px 0 0 .5em;
    width:100%;
    display:inline;
    height:100%;
}
#linksinner a
{
    color:red;
    text-decoration: none;
    display:block;
    margin: 5px 0 0 0;
    border-style:none;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="linksouter">
    <div id="linksinner">
    <a href="#">1</a>
    <a href="#">1</a>
    <a href="#">1</a>
    <a href="#">1</a>
    <a href="#">1</a>
    </div>
</div>

</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    the border you see is called an outline. you can get rid of it by putting this style into your a rules:

    outline:none;

    personally i always define it as a blanket a rule near the top of my stylesheets (i really dislike outlines even though i know they have a use)

    a { outline:none; }

    hope this helps

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