how can i avoid a blue line show up when i click on a link

Question

i have a website and when i click on a link, i get this blue border around the link just during the time i am clicking it. When the new page loads, that highlighting is gone.

Here is an example screenshot how it looks right when i click on the link.

How can i stop this from happening?

Answer 1

Use outline: 0;

http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_outline.asp
http://css-tricks.com/removing-the-dotted-outline/