Styling `:focus-within` on `<details>`

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
78/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
css
Domain
accessibility, frontend

Research direction

Use the issue's details:has(summary:focus-within) selector as the entry point and locate the existing

and styles. Test keyboard focus on a in a browser, then confirm that the details element shows the accent border and outline while its summary is focused.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

visual

Currently tabbing to a <details> does not show the usual :focus-within outline (technically, tabbing to the <summary>)

This could be fixed with

details:has(summary:focus-within) {
  border-color: var(--accent);
  outline: .2em solid var(--accent);
}
Dominant language
CSS
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