CSS :focus not working

Question

I tried using :focus CSS pseudo-class in my project. I want to change the color of the element where I click on it. Now when I click my element change color only where it is active and after mouse up it return to old color. After second click I want it back to old color. I'm using Chrome.

Demo here

.row {
  display: inline-block;
  border: 1px solid grey;
  height: 200px;
  width: 200px;
  line-height: 1em;
  background: grey;
  margin: 5px;
  opacity: 0.1;
}
.row:active,
.row:focus {
  background: orange;
}

<div id="main" class="container">
  <div class="row" id="row0">
  </div>
</div>

Answer 1

If you want a real focus state to a div element, you can add a tabindex attribute to it.

.row {
	display:inline-block;
  border:1px solid grey;  
  height:200px;
  width: 200px;
  line-height:1em;
  background: grey;
  margin: 5px;
   opacity: 0.1;
}

.row:active, .row:focus { background: orange; }
 

<div id="main" class="container">
<div class="row" tabindex="1" id="row0">
</div>
</div>

If you want toggle the color with clicking the same div element, you have to use javascript (jQuery):

jQuery('#row0').click(function() {
  $(this).toggleClass('orange');
});

.row {
	display:inline-block;
  border:1px solid grey;  
  height:200px;
  width: 200px;
  line-height:1em;
  background: grey;
  margin: 5px;
   opacity: 0.1;
}

.row.orange { background: orange; }

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div id="main" class="container">
<div class="row" id="row0">
</div>
</div>

Answer 2

What you are looking for is :visited, but this doesn't work on a div. You should use the a-tag for it (including href="#").

.row:active, .row:visited { background: orange; }

Check the fiddle below:

http://jsfiddle.net/uuyNH/32/

Edit: Vincent G's answer seems to do more what you want though, since you can remove the background color by clicking away.

Answer 3

You can emulate the toggle effect with a CSS trick by adding a hidden checkbox input.

See it here

HTML :

<div id="main" class="container">
  <input type="checkbox" />
  <div class="row" id="row0">
  </div>
</div>

CSS :

.container { position: relative; }
input { position: absolute; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 200px; height: 200px; z-index: 1; opacity: 0; display: block; }
input:checked + .row { background: orange; }

Answer 4

.row {
  display:inline-block;
  border:1px solid grey;  
  height:200px;
  width: 200px;
  line-height:1em;
  background: grey;
  margin: 5px;
  opacity: 0.1;
}

.row:active, .row:focus { background: orange; opacity:1 }

<div id="main" class="container">
<div class="row" tabindex="1" id="row0">
</div>
</div>

Please try this...