 <p>Use focus and simplify your css a little to something like this if possible:</p> <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false"> <div class="snippet-code"> <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>.sky-form-orange input:focus { background-color: #f5b093 !important; }</code></pre> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;head&gt; &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt; &lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=10"&gt; &lt;title&gt;Blog – Magma Machine - Graphic and Digital Design&lt;/title&gt; &lt;link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"&gt; &lt;link rel="pingback" href="http://www.magmamachine.co.uk/xmlrpc.php"&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;document.documentElement.className = document.documentElement.className + ' yes-js js_active js'&lt;/script&gt; &lt;style&gt; .wishlist_table .add_to_cart, a.add_to_wishlist.button.alt { border-radius: 16px; -moz-border-radius: 16px; 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