Lynda - CSS: Selectors

4h 8m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch | 624MB

Genre: eLearning | Intermediate | Language: English

This course is a resource guide, covering the best practices for writing different types of CSS selectors and choosing the best selectors for targeting different HTML elements. Senior staff author James Williamson covers basic selectors, attribute selectors, pseudo-class and pseudo-element selectors, and structural selectors, as well as combinators and pattern-matching selectors. Then he offers tips to write more efficient and maintainable code, and a look at what's next for CSS selectors.

Topics include:

Targeting classes and IDs

Working with group selectors

Targeting element attributes

String matching

Targeting links with pseudo-class selectors

Targeting child elements and empty elements

Targeting parent, child, and sibling elements

Matching patterns

Writing efficient selectors