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 […]
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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 →
A Complete Guide to Data Attributes
I like using data attributes in my markup (data-*), CSS ([data-*]), and JS (el.dataset). This post on CSS-Tricks writes down exactly how I use them. Especially the different type of attribute selectors are really powerful: // Seven different types of CSS attribute selectors // This attribute exists on the element [value] // This attribute has […]
CSS-Only Multiple Choice Quiz
Matthew Somerville: I followed a link to one of those Guardian end-of-year quizzes on my phone, and had answered a few questions before realising that it was working entirely without JavaScript (I have JavaScript disabled on my phone). I found this very impressive, well done whoever worked on that, and so I thought I would […]
How the CSS :is() selector will simplify things
One of the selectors in CSS Level 4 is :is(). It is the successor to :any() and :matches() (which are supplanted by :is()): The :is() CSS pseudo-class function takes a selector list as its argument, and selects any element that can be selected by one of the selectors in that list. This is useful for […]
Well Aimed: How well do you know CSS Selectors?
Fun little quiz, testing your CSS Selectors knowledge. Well Aimed: How well do you know CSS Selectors →
The future of CSS: Nesting Selectors
Early March the first draft for the CSS Nesting Module was published. The draft outlines a future mechanism by which we’ll be able to nest CSS selectors natively (e.g. in pure CSS, without the use of any preprocessors) This module describes support for nesting a style rule within another style rule, allowing the inner rule’s […]
CSS pseudo-classes
Great and visual explanation of CSS pseudo-classes such as :only-of-type, :first-of-type, :last-of-type, :nth-of-type(number/an + b/even/odd), … Embedded above is the visual for the selector: a:nth-last-of-type(1) { border: 2px solid black; } How CSS pseudo-classes work, explained with code and lots of diagrams →
CSS attribute value less than / greater than / equals selectors
Yesterday Ana Tudor wondered if should could write CSS selectors using less-than and greater-than logic: CSS attribute selector wish:[data-code>2][data-code<19] { /* styles */ }[data-code>=19][data-code<65] { /* other styles */ }and so on… — Ana Tudor (@anatudor) October 12, 2016 Unfortunately this kind of selectors don’t work (yet). Until then one could use JavaScript to tackling […]