Tuesday, 27th May 2003
Fun with links
Yesterday we talked about the box model. Today we’re going to put a small part of it to work, by investigating ways of styling links. Before getting stuck in, we need to talk a bit about pseudo-selectors (also known as pseudo classes). The CSS specification defines pseudo classes as “characteristics that cannot be deduced from the document tree”, but in practise the only widely implemented psuedo selectors are those that apply to links. The key psuedo selectors for links are:
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