From 33a470f56965bed37104fb2e609bf32ca3948610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Rodrigo=20Gir=C3=A3o=20Serr=C3=A3o?=
 <5621605+rodrigogiraoserrao@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 11:45:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix footer highlight when pushing modal.

---
 CHANGELOG.md                   | 1 +
 src/textual/widgets/_footer.py | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2ba7ec153..d838c46f5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Changed
 
 - `Placeholder` now sets its color cycle per app https://github.com/Textualize/textual/issues/2590
+- Footer now clears key highlight regardless of whether it's in the active screen or not https://github.com/Textualize/textual/issues/2606
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/src/textual/widgets/_footer.py b/src/textual/widgets/_footer.py
index a52e05785..b5e772ab6 100644
--- a/src/textual/widgets/_footer.py
+++ b/src/textual/widgets/_footer.py
@@ -79,8 +79,7 @@ class Footer(Widget):
 
     def _on_leave(self, _: events.Leave) -> None:
         """Clear any highlight when the mouse leaves the widget"""
-        if self.screen.is_current:
-            self.highlight_key = None
+        self.highlight_key = None
 
     def __rich_repr__(self) -> rich.repr.Result:
         yield from super().__rich_repr__()