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CSS CSS Foundations Advanced Selectors UI Element States Pseudo-Classes

Marston Gould
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:focus vs. :enabled?

What is the difference between these two? What are the use cases where you would use one vs. the other or in combination?

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Ashley Franklin
Ashley Franklin
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Ashley Franklin
Ashley Franklin
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They're sort of similar, but :enabled is for anything that is active, and :focus is for what's actually being used.

So if you look at the example for that particular video here, http://codepen.io/pen/def?fork=CrfsJ, the second field there is disabled, but the rest is enabled, so :enabled would apply to everything there but the disabled part.

:focus is what part is being used (draw focus to what you're doing, right? haha) so if you changed :focus { background: green; } then when you click inside the the first field there, putting it in focus, the background would be green :)