Get state for dropdown menu with :focus by Alexander Zonov June 11, 2015 HTML <!-- Attension on tabindex="-1" that give focus for any html tag --> <div class="wrapper" tabindex="-1"> <div class="holder" tabindex="-1"> CLICK <div class="menu"> </div> </div> </div> CSS .wrapper { width: 100px; height: 100px; cursor: pointer; } .holder { width: 100px; height: 60px; background-color: gray; position: relative; color: white; padding-top: 40px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; pointer-events: none; } .wrapper:focus .holder { pointer-events: auto; } .menu { position: absolute; top: 100%; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; background-color: blue; } .wrapper:focus .menu{ height: 100px; } .holder:focus .menu{ height: 0px; }