pseudoselector

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pseudo- +‎ selector

Noun[edit]

pseudoselector (plural pseudoselectors)

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