If I read the specification correctly, no. You can match on an element, the name of an attribute in the element, and the value of a named attribute in an element. I don’t see anything for matching content within an element, though.
Just append :after to your #alertlist li:hover selector the same way you do with your #alertlist li.selected selector:
“>” is the child selector “” is the descendant selector The difference is that a descendant can be a child of the element, or a child of a child of the element or a child of a child of a child ad inifinitum. A child element is simply one that is directly contained within the parent element: for … Read more
^= indicates “starts with”. Conversely, $= indicates “ends with”. The symbols are actually borrowed from Regex syntax, where ^ and $ mean “start of string” and “end of string” respectively. See the specs for full information.
Yes, use :not(:hover) Show code snippet Another example; I think you want to: “when one is hovered, dim all other elements”. If my assumption is correct, and assuming all your selectors are inside the same parent: Show code snippet Otherwise… simply use the default logic:
It is a wildcard, this means it will select all elements within that portion of the DOM. For example, if I want apply margin to every element on my entire page you can use: You can also use this within sub-selections, for example the following would add a margin to all elements within a paragraph … Read more
This is a common technique called a CSS reset. Different browsers use different default margins, causing sites to look different by margins. The * means “all elements” (a universal selector), so we are setting all elements to have zero margins, and zero padding, thus making them look the same in all browsers.
Yes, they are different… # is an id selector, used to target a single specific element with a unique id, but . is a class selector used to target multiple elements with a particular class. To put it another way: #foo {} will style the single element declared with an attribute id=”foo” .foo {} will style all elements with an attribute class=”foo” (you can have multiple classes assigned to an element too, … Read more
Try #cooldiv .row:not(:first-child). It seems you missed : before first-child. Maybe that’s why it doesn’t function?
.class .class matches any elements of class .class that are descendants of another element with the class .class. .class.class matches any element with both classes.