When I first learned about pseudo-properties in CSS I was confused as I had a hard time grasping how you could style something that wasn't in the HTML. But then I started styling my visited and active links using :visited and :active and I realized that those states are not part of the HTML, but they are part of the Web page construct. Then I decided to learn how to do a drop cap on my paragraphs using CSS and I realized that the first-letter is also a construct on the Web page, even though it's not defined by HTML. And after that I understood pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements.

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CSS Pseudo-Properties Let You Style More than Just the HTML You See originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, June 17th, 2010 at 20:34:00.

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