What is the mouse down selector in CSS

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I have noticed that buttons and other elements have a default styling and behave in 3 steps  normal view  hover focus view and mousedown click view  in CSS I can change the styling of normal view and hover view like this   button    background  333    color  FFF     button hover    background  000    color  EEE      but how can I select the mousedown  I want something like this   button mousedown      some styling     thanks

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I figured out that this behaves like a mousedown event   button active hover

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Pro-tip Note  for some reason  CSS syntax needs the  active snippet after the  hover for the same element in order to be effective  http   www w3schools com cssref sel active asp

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I think you mean the active state   button active      some styling      These are all the possible pseudo states a link can have in CSS   a link  color  FF0000         unvisited link  same as regular  a     a hover  color  FF00FF        mouse over link    a focus  color  0000FF        link has focus    a active  color  0000FF       selected link    a visited  color  00FF00      visited link      See also  http   www w3 org TR selectors  the-user-action-pseudo-classes-hover-act

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I recently found out that  active focus does the same thing in css as  active hover if you need to override a custom css library  they might use both

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