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CSS Make :focus button last forever unless another button is :focus

Supa

New Coder
I have some CSS code for a list of buttons. I want the buttons changed colors from the focus to last forever until another button is in :focus.For example:
```css
.buttons {
background-color:red
}
.buttons:focus {
background-color:eek:range
}
```
However, when I press away from the button, the :focus styles go away. I understand this is normal behavior, but is there a way to change it so that the button is :focus until another button is :focus? Or is that impossible without JS?
 
Yes, you'll need to post full, working code and please do so in code tags.
If you say "press away from the button" I take that to mean you click some other element, which means that that element gets focus and your button loses focus. Only one element can have the focus, as I think you're aware of. So, it's important that you are more specific and precise about what you are doing with the mouse and keyboard. A step-by-step description of the issue, as it were. My gut feeling is that you'll need JS coding in various event handlers, you probably can't do it with CSS only.
 
Here is where I'm having a problem:
```html
<div class="btns">
<button class="numbers">1</button> <button class="numbers">2</button>
<button class="numbers">3</button> <button class="numbers">4</button>
<button class="numbers">5</button>
</div>
```
Ignore the vars for colors. those aren't important
```css
.numbers {
border-radius: 50%;
background-color: var(--vDB);
color: var(--mG);
border: none;
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
margin: 8.3px;
opacity: 0.4;
}
.numbers:focus {
background-color: var(--orange);
color: white;
opacity: 1
}

```

If I were to add some JS like this:
```js
for (let ele of document.querySelectorAll("button.numbers")) {
ele.onclick = () => {
ele.dataset.focused = "true";
}
}
```
it would mean that the buttons would stay focused forever, even if another button is pressed. (FYI, focused will be used as a CSS hook)
 

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