How to keep :active css style after click a button

Question

Once the button is clicked I want it to stay with the active style instead of going back to normal style. Can this be done with CSS please? Im using blurb button from DIVI

Answer 1

CSS

:active denotes the interaction state (so for a button will be applied during press), :focus may be a better choice here. However, the styling will be lost once another element gains focus.

The final potential alternative using CSS would be to use :target, assuming the items being clicked are setting routes (e.g. anchors) within the page- however this can be interrupted if you are using routing (e.g. Angular), however this doesnt seem the case here.

.active:active {
  color: red;
}
.focus:focus {
  color: red;
}
:target {
  color: red;
}

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Javascript / jQuery

As such, there is no way in CSS to absolutely toggle a styled state- if none of the above work for you, you will either need to combine with a change in your HTML (e.g. based on a checkbox) or programatically apply/remove a class using e.g. jQuery

$('button').on('click', function(){
    $('button').removeClass('selected');
    $(this).addClass('selected');
});

button.selected{
  color:red;
}

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