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pseudoselector en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From pseudo- + selector.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, qualifier:Cascading Style Sheets) A kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup.
    • 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. 2009, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference:

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