# postcss-focus-visible

> Use the :focus-visible pseudo-selector in CSS

Latest version **11.0.0** (published 2026-01-14) · MIT-0 license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install postcss-focus-visible
pnpm add postcss-focus-visible
yarn add postcss-focus-visible
bun add postcss-focus-visible
```

## Health

**Score 55/100 (C)** — status: stable.

Positive: esm support; no vulnerabilities; high maintenance score.

Warnings: low downloads; no types.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 11.0.0 |
| Published | 2026-01-14 |
| First published | 2018-02-17 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT-0 |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | ESM |
| Node | >=20.19.0 |
| Dependencies | 1 |
| Unpacked size | 8.2 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 1053 |
| Maintainers | jonathantneal, alaguna, romainmenke |
| Keywords | a11y, accessibility, button, contenteditable, css, cursor, focus, input, javascript, js, keyboards, mice, mouse, pen, pointer, postcss, postcss-plugin, pseudos, ring, select, selectors, textarea, touch, trackpad |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss-focus-visible
- Repository: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins
- Homepage: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins/tree/main/plugins/postcss-focus-visible#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins/issues
- Funding: https://github.com/sponsors/csstools
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/postcss-focus-visible

## Dependencies (1)

- [postcss-selector-parser](https://npm.io/package/postcss-selector-parser.md) ^7.1.1

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## Recent versions

- 11.0.0 (latest) — 2026-01-14
- 10.0.1 — 2024-10-23
- 10.0.0 — 2024-08-03
- 9.0.1 — 2023-12-15
- 9.0.0 — 2023-07-03
- 8.0.2 — 2023-02-08
- 8.0.1 — 2023-01-28
- 8.0.0 — 2023-01-24
- 7.1.0 — 2022-07-30
- 7.0.0 — 2022-07-08
- 6.0.4 — 2022-02-05
- 6.0.3 — 2022-01-02
- 6.0.2 — 2021-12-13
- 6.0.1 — 2021-09-22
- 6.0.0 — 2021-09-17
- … 4 more at https://npm.io/package/postcss-focus-visible/versions

## README

# PostCSS Focus Visible [<img src="https://postcss.github.io/postcss/logo.svg" alt="PostCSS Logo" width="90" height="90" align="right">][PostCSS]

`npm install postcss-focus-visible --save-dev`

[PostCSS Focus Visible] lets you use the `:focus-visible` pseudo-class in CSS, 
following the [Selectors Level 4 specification].

To use this feature you need to do two things :
- add the [PostCSS plugin](#usage) that transforms the selector into a class or attribute
- add the [focus-visible polyfill] that sets the attribute or class on elements in a browser

[!['Can I use' table](https://caniuse.bitsofco.de/image/css-focus-visible.png)](https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-focus-visible)

```css

```css
:focus:not(:focus-visible) {
	outline: none;
}

/* becomes */

:focus:not(.focus-visible).js-focus-visible, .js-focus-visible :focus:not(.focus-visible) {
	outline: none;
}
:focus:not(:focus-visible) {
	outline: none;
}
```

[PostCSS Focus Visible] duplicates rules using the `:focus-visible` pseudo-class
with a `.focus-visible` class selector, the same selector used by the
[focus-visible polyfill].

## Usage

Add [PostCSS Focus Visible] to your project:

```bash
npm install postcss postcss-focus-visible --save-dev
```

Use it as a [PostCSS] plugin:

```js
const postcss = require('postcss');
const postcssFocusVisible = require('postcss-focus-visible');

postcss([
	postcssFocusVisible(/* pluginOptions */)
]).process(YOUR_CSS /*, processOptions */);
```



## Options

### preserve

The `preserve` option determines whether the original notation
is preserved. By default, it is preserved.

```js
postcssFocusVisible({ preserve: false })
```

```css
:focus:not(:focus-visible) {
	outline: none;
}

/* becomes */

:focus:not(.focus-visible).js-focus-visible, .js-focus-visible :focus:not(.focus-visible) {
	outline: none;
}
```

### replaceWith

The `replaceWith` option defines the selector to replace `:focus-visible`. By
default, the replacement selector is `.focus-visible`.

```js
postcssFocusVisible({ replaceWith: '[data-focus-visible-added]' })
```

```css
:focus:not(:focus-visible) {
	outline: none;
}

/* becomes */

<example.preserve-true.expect.css>
```

Note that if you want to keep using [focus-visible polyfill], the only 
acceptable value would be `[data-focus-visible-added]`,
given that the polyfill does not support arbitrary values.

### disablePolyfillReadyClass

The `disablePolyfillReadyClass` option determines if selectors are prefixed with an indicator class.
This class is only set on your document if the polyfill loads and is needed.

By default this option is `false`.
Set this to `true` to prevent the class from being added.

```js
postcssFocusVisible({ disablePolyfillReadyClass: true })
```

```css
:focus:not(:focus-visible) {
	outline: none;
}

/* becomes */

:focus:not(.focus-visible) {
	outline: none;
}
:focus:not(:focus-visible) {
	outline: none;
}
```

[cli-url]: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins/actions/workflows/test.yml?query=workflow/test
[css-url]: https://cssdb.org/#focus-visible-pseudo-class
[discord]: https://discord.gg/bUadyRwkJS
[npm-url]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss-focus-visible

[PostCSS]: https://github.com/postcss/postcss
[PostCSS Focus Visible]: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins/tree/main/plugins/postcss-focus-visible
[Selectors Level 4 specification]: https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-4/#the-focus-visible-pseudo
[focus-visible polyfill]: https://github.com/WICG/focus-visible

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