CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition

4. Selective Styling

In This Chapter

The Element Family Tree 70

Defining Styles Based on Context 71

Working with Pseudo-classes 80

Working with Pseudo-elements 92

Defining Styles Based on Tag Attributes 96

NEW IN CSS3: Querying the Media 100

Inheriting Properties from a Parent 109

Making a Declaration !important 111

Determining the Cascade Order 113

Putting It All Together 116

It’s not enough to style a Web page element. The art of CSS—and thus the art of Web design—is the ability to style elements based on their context. You must consider where an element is in the document; which elements surround it; its attributes, content, and dynamic ...