CSS Reference Pseudo-Classes


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Pseudo-Classes

Pseudo elements are used to break down elements into smaller parts allowing us to define different styles for each. A good example of this is the anchor "A" tag which has three different pseudo-classes: link, visited and active.

A:link { color: red }
A:visited { color: blue }
A:active { color: lime }

You should notice that the pseudo-classes are separated by the colon ":" character. In instances such as these, the pseudo-class only applies to the anchor element, so we can actually elimnate the major element as shown below:

:link { color: red }
:visited { color: blue }
:active { color: lime }

Psedo-Element	Elements	Meaning
active	`A`	Active hyperlink
first-line	`BLOCKQUOTE, P`	Applied to first-line of text for block-level elements.
first-letter	`BLOCKQUOTE, P`	Applied to first character of text for block-level elements.
link	`A`	Hyperlink
visited	`A`	Visited hyperlink

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