Jim Nielsen set out to style a bunch of links that appeared before hr elements. As the element tree – generated from a Markdown file – was entirely flat, there are no enclosing section elements to hook onto in order to select those links (using something like section p:last-child a:only-child). The solution? The :has() selector: …
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CSS: Select first x items
Because I keep forgetting this, an entry on the blog so that my future self can find it back easily: CSS: Want your first 5 list items to be bold? li:nth-of-type(-n + 5) {font-weight: bold;} Start with the # of list items you want to impact, then increment backward with -n. — Estelle Weyl (@estellevw) …
Test your CSS Selector Skills with CSS Speedrun
Now that’s a fun little quiz by Vincent Will: A small fun app to test your CSS knowledge. Find the correct CSS selectors for the 10 puzzles as fast as possible. Finished my in 04:38:7. Level 8 tripped me up though: didn’t immediately see the pattern and lost more than 2 minutes on it 😅. …
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Magic PostCSS Custom Combinators using :has()
Similar to how you can (ab)use :nth-child() to create “new” CSS selectors, you can leverage :has() to create some typical combinators. Brandon McConnell did just that: y:has(+ x) selects the first preceding y sibling of x: y:has(~ x) selects all preceding y sibling of x: x + y, y:has(+ x) selects the first preceding and …
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The CSS :has() selector is way more than a “Parent Selector”
Safari TP 137 just dropped with unflagged support for :has(). Often dubbed “the parent selector”, :has() is way more than that …
Identify and Extract Pseudo-Element Selectors from built-in HTML Elements using DevTools
Recently Stefan Judis shared how to style the browse button of a file selector using the ::file-selector-button pseudo-element TIL – you can style the file input "browse" button using `::file-selector-button`.😲Supported in Firefox, Chromiums starting with 89 & Safari Tech preview.🔗 MDN: https://t.co/56jACY9qK1🔗 Compat data pr: https://t.co/vrFNS4LdISVideo alt: Example of a styled browse button. pic.twitter.com/3YQ0njkX0J— Stefan …
Three important things you should know about CSS :is()
Back in 2019 I shared how the CSS :is() selector will simplify things when writing CSS. What I didn’t know back then, and only have learnt quite recently, are these three important facts about CSS :is(): The selector list of :is() is forgiving The specificity of :is() is that of its most specific argument :is() …
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Style Spelling and Grammar Errors with the ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo-elements
Part of the CSS Pseudo-Elements Level 4 Specification are ways to style spelling and grammar errors. By default spelling errors — words you have mistyped — get a red dotted underline, thanks to the ::spelling-error pseudo-class selector you can tweak that. Grammar errors — such as a missing capital letter at the beginning of a …
CSS :nth-of-class selector
One thing that bothers me with CSS :nth-of-type/:nth-child selectors is that you can’t combine them with CSS classes. The selector below for example won’t work as you’d first expect it to work: .bar:nth-child(2) { color: red; } No, the selector above won’t color the second .bar element red, something I had somehow expected it to …
Selectors Explained — Translate CSS selectors into plain English
A small utility to demystify CSS selectors, explaining them in plain English. Best part of it all: it updates the URL upon entering a selector so you get directly shareable links 🙂 Selectors Explained →