Pseudoselector
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup. Internet
"But some elements are not necessarily found in the document markup, such as which links have been visited or the first line of a paragraph. To apply style to these instances in a document, CSS provides several pseudoselectors."
Example
More examples"But some elements are not necessarily found in the document markup, such as which links have been visited or the first line of a paragraph. To apply style to these instances in a document, CSS provides several pseudoselectors."
Etymology
From pseudo- + selector.
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