Chapter 8
Keeping Your Markup Slim Using CSS Selectors
In order to style an element with CSS, we need to be able to target it. Enter CSS selectors, which allow us to target specific elements in the DOM.
Using CSS3 selectors, we can target elements at an even more granular level than we’ve been able to previously. This means that your markup can be super slim, semantic, and flexible. What’s more, the new element states pseudo-classes allow for additional highlighting of dynamic state changes.
You had a refresher on the cascade, inheritance, and CSS specificity in the previous chapter. In this chapter, we’re going to remind ourselves of selector ...
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