Chapter 3
Pseudo School: Learning Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting a handle on pseudo-classes
Selecting child elements
Styling elements by type, state, or user action
Taking your selector game up a notch with functional pseudo-classes
Giving some pseudo-elements a spin
pseudo: adj., almost, approaching, or trying to be.
—DICTIONARY.COM
When you work with CSS, what you’re essentially doing is applying styles to the HTML that you used to build the structure of the page. Your CSS rules deal with real (as far as things like HTML tags can be considered “real,” that is) things like headings (h1, h2, and so on), paragraphs (p elements), links (a elements), and images (img elements).
However, your page has a hidden world that's not evident (at least not explicitly) in its HTML code. Has a page visitor selected a checkbox or radio button? Is a user hovering the mouse pointer over an image? Has the user visited one of your links in the past? Is a particular element ...
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