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JavaScript

Posted by Ashish Mehra
Ashish Mehra
Courses Plus Student 73 Points

How to target pseudo elements

hey all I have pseudo elements from where i am including ico-moon font in my html.

index.html 
<div class="response">
   <span class="error" data-icon ='&#xea0f;'>Something went wrong</span>
</div>
style.css 
.error::before{
  font-family: 'IcoMoon-Free';
  content: attr(data-icon);
  float: left;
  cursor: pointer;
}

I want to hide response div when user click the ico-moon cross symbol ?

1 Answer

jag
jag
18,266 Points
jag
jag
18,266 Points

From what I've read you can't manipulate ::before or ::after. With that being said you will have to just use jQuery or pure javascript to hide error when clicked.

hide.js 
$('.error').click(function(){

    $(this).css('color','red')

})
Matthew Francis
Matthew Francis
6,967 Points
Matthew Francis
Matthew Francis
6,967 Points

Hi, I havent looked into jQuery syntax just yet, mind if you translate this to pure javascript?

jag
jag
18,266 Points
jag
jag
18,266 Points
pure.js 
var error = document.getElementsByClassName('error')
for(i=0;i<error.length;i++){
    error[i].addEventListener("click", function(){ this.style.visibility = "hidden" });
}