As you can see
I want to somehow remove the dotted lines after the button has been clicke
If you want to keep the outline on active and on focus, but hide it on clicking a link, you can add in css:
A.No-Outline {outline-style:none;}
and use script:
$('A').hover(function() {
$(this).addClass('No-Outline');
},function() {
$(this).removeClass('No-Outline');
});
you must be hover befor clicking, so it does the job.