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Professional CSS3

You're reading from   Professional CSS3 Harness the power of CSS3 to design stunning, modern websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880940
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Foundations and Tools 2. Mastering of Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Mastering of Pseudoelements and Pseudoclasses 4. Responsive Websites – Prepare Your Code for Specific Devices 5. Using Background Images in CSS 6. Styling Forms 7. Resolving Classic Problems 8. Usage of Flexbox Transform 9. Calc, Gradients, and Shadows 10. Don't Repeat Yourself – Let's Create a Simple CSS Framework 11. Mailers Fundamentals 12. Scalability and Modularity 13. Code Optimization 14. Final Automatization and Processes Optimization Index

Usage of pseudoclasses

New pseudoclasses are opening new horizons for CSS/HTML coders. Most of the features like first-child, last-child, and nth-child, were added with JavaScript code. For example, using jQuery code, you could get a list element and add specific classes to the first/last/nth element, and then to properly create a selector, you could add a CSS code.

But when it is natively supported by a browser, it is better to use CSS. Let's gather basic knowledge about this feature.

How to use :first-child, :last-child, :nth-child()

A short introduction to these pseudoelements is as follows:

  • :first-child: This points to the element that is the first child of its parent
  • :last-child: This points to the element that is the last child of its parent
  • :nth-child(): This points to the element that matches the pattern wrapped in ()

The easiest way to check how it works is to create an unordered list with new elements:

<ul>
    <li>Element one</li>
   <li>Element two</li...
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