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CSS CSS Selectors Advanced Selectors The attr() CSS Function

Posted by Terrence Wells
Terrence Wells
14,609 Points

What's the point of targeting elements that don't exist in the source code?

I don't understand the practicality of that.

1 Answer

Joe Dayvie
Joe Dayvie
11,956 Points
Joe Dayvie
Joe Dayvie
11,956 Points

Terrence,

Generally that is not good practice and if you do not have an element in your code, then you should not be using it. With that said, there are sometimes situations where you would have certain code in your CSS file but may not notice it being used in the HTML document (example: jQuery).

Joe

Terrence Wells
Terrence Wells
14,609 Points

Ok thanks!