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pseudoselector

pseudoselector noun: a kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup.

Noun

pseudoselector (plural pseudoselectors)

  1. (Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) A kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup.
    • 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

Forms of pseudoselector

pluralpseudoselectors

Origin of pseudoselector

From pseudo- + selector.

Questions about pseudoselector

What does pseudoselector mean?
Pseudoselector means a kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup.
What part of speech is pseudoselector?
Pseudoselector is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudoselector?
The plural of pseudoselector is pseudoselectors.

Words near pseudoselector in the dictionary

  1. pseudosegmentation
  2. pseudosegmentations
  3. pseudosegmented
  4. pseudoseizure
  5. pseudoseizures
  6. pseudoselector
  7. pseudoselectors
  8. pseudosensitive
  9. pseudosentence
  10. pseudosentences
  11. pseudosentience

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