It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Having a “parent selector” in CSS is mentioned regularly as something CSS could really use. I feel like I’ve had that thought plenty of times myself, but then when I ask my brain for a use case, I find it hard to think of one. Well, I just had one so I thought I’d document it here.… Read article “A Use Case for a Parent Selector”
Nice find by Ian Devlin:
The
:focus-withinpseudo class becomes active when an element itself has focus or if any of its descendants does.
Selecting a parent element based on children is lonnng awaited. The crown jewel of that is :has(). I wonder if that’s getting closer.… Read article “The `:focus-within` Pseudo Class”
The & character in Sass is unique in that it represents the current selector. It changes as you nest. Let’s say you are nested, but you want access to a selector back up the nesting a bit. The trick is to cache & and use it deeper in the nesting. … Read article “Caching the Current Selector (&) in Sass”
