pseudoselector
nounEtymology From pseudo- + selector.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Internet A kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup.
Cascading Style Sheets
- 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: