insider.si.edu: Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea
Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea
insider.si.edu: Before the mast : life and death aboard the Mary Rose / edited by Julie Gardiner with Michael J. Allen ; with contributions from Mary-Anne Alburger [and others]
Before the mast : life and death aboard the Mary Rose / edited by Julie Gardiner with Michael J. Allen ; with contributions from Mary-Anne Alburger [and others]
The ::before notation (with two colons) was introduced in CSS3 in order to establish a discrimination between pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements. Browsers also accept the notation :before introduced in CSS 2.
So I read the docs and probably understand the purpose of ::before and ::after. If my understanding is correct, they should always work in combination with other elements. But the web page I'm look...
The pseudo-element selectors (or ::before and ::after) are used to generate content on the fly for browsers, and the results are called generated content. The generated content does not belong to the document's DOM, and thus is invisible to devices like screen readers.
This depends on what you're actually trying to do. If you simply wish to apply styles to a :before pseudo-element when the a element matches a pseudo-class, you need to write a:hover:before or a:visited:before instead. Notice the pseudo-element comes after the pseudo-class (and in fact, at the very end of the entire selector). Notice also that they are two different things; calling them both ...