Add thick rectangle border around the button after it is pressed.

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There are many buttons in a dialog. Add thick rectangle border around the button after it is pressed and hide thick rectangle border after the button is pressed again. After I pressed many buttons ,the buttons that is pressed are of thick rectangle border until I pressed them again.

How to do this ?

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Posted 1-Apr-10 0:10am

zhonglin.liang

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Gary Stafford · Answer 1 · 2010-04-01T14:26:00

If you are asking this in regards to web-based solution, then using jQuery would make this fairly easy by switching the button's CSS classes.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Buttons</title>
    <style type="text/css">
        .buttons
        {
            padding: 5px;
            margin: 10px;
        }
        .thick
        {
            border: 4px solid blue;
        }
        .thin
        {
            border: 1px solid black;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <input id="" type="button" value="Button 1" />
    <input id="" type="button" value="Button 2" />
    <input id="" type="button" value="Button 3" />
    <input id="" type="button" value="Button 4" />
    <script src="scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        //Add base classes to all buttons on page
        jQuery(function($) {
            $(":button").addClass("buttons thin")
        });
        //Toggle thick/thin classes when clicked
        $(function() {
            $(":button").click(function() {
                if ($(this).hasClass("thin")) {
                    $(this).removeClass("thin").addClass("thick");
                }
                else {
                    $(this).removeClass("thick").addClass("thin");
                }
            });
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>