# Perspective: Is there any way to stop components from showing an 'in focus' rectangle?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-is-there-any-way-to-stop-components-from-showing-an-in-focus-rectangle/26624>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [July 17, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-is-there-any-way-to-stop-components-from-showing-an-in-focus-rectangle/26624 "2019-07-17T13:19:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-is-there-any-way-to-stop-components-from-showing-an-in-focus-rectangle/26624/1 "2019-07-17T13:19:21Z")

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v8.0.2

E.g. on the Carousel component, note orange border is displayed if the carousel component is touched in runtime:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/2/2d274404141cb695f197d028a2f3212b16764c93.png)

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-is-there-any-way-to-stop-components-from-showing-an-in-focus-rectangle/26624/2 "2019-07-17T15:37:13Z")

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Linking Cody's excellent, albeit slightly exasperated explanation on that focus border:

> [@Android perspective focus](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/android-perspective-focus/26185/2):
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> The “things” have orange because that’s what android defaults to. You might notice that Chrome provides a light blue outline. You can set this yourself in the css files, but you should be aware of a couple things before you do: The light.css and dark.css files can be overwritten at any time by us, so changes you make to these files could be overwritten in the future. Changes to the light and dark css files will be seen across all projects until an individual project is told to use a different…

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-is-there-any-way-to-stop-components-from-showing-an-in-focus-rectangle/26624/3 "2019-07-17T15:39:07Z")

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Awesome, cheers!