Indicate clicked element via border style rather than focus.

This makes it slightly more obvious, and it promotes decoupling --
changing focus affects a lot of other behavior, and it's more elegant
not to have to juggle that.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/domUtils.js b/lib/domUtils.js
index cfb1202b..c1bdcdde 100644
--- a/lib/domUtils.js
+++ b/lib/domUtils.js
@@ -105,4 +105,13 @@ var domUtils = {
     }
   },
 
+  // momentarily flash a border around an element to give user some visual feedback
+  flashElement: function(element) {
+    var oldBorderValue = element.style.border;
+    element.style.border = '1px solid #66f';
+    setTimeout(function() {
+      element.style.border = oldBorderValue;
+    }, 400);
+  },
+
 };