How to remove dotted border around active hyperlinks in IE8 with CSS

Question

Active hyperlink texts are highlighted with dotted border. When using effects on such hyperlinks (fadeIn/fadeOut) it produces strange effects. How do I disable/remove the do

Answer 1

Be careful. The dotted-border is a valuable part of keyboard-browsing. It highlights which link will be clicked.

a:active { outline: none; }

Author Nathan Smith gives a more thorough discussion of this, and various related issues on his blog.