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CSS CSS Selectors Advanced Selectors :not() – The Negation Pseudo-Class

Jason S
Jason S
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Posted by Jason S
Jason S
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When is this useful?

under what circumstances would this be useful in a real world situation?

James MacDonald
James MacDonald
Courses Plus Student 6,268 Points
James MacDonald
James MacDonald
Courses Plus Student 6,268 Points

Hi Jason,

Are you referring to the :not pseudo-class? It's not entirely clear from your question.

-Jamie

Jason S
Jason S
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Jason S
Jason S
16,247 Points

yeah sorry forgot to specify

1 Answer

Sean May
Sean May
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Sean May
Sean May
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This post on CSS Tricks shows some usage for the :not() pseudo selector.

For most cases, it's not exactly the best practice, it would be better for you to just select things directly instead of selecting something that doesn't have a certain attribute, but in things like lists where you want to create different styling for alternating rows or you want to have a certain set of rows that have certain styling, you could use :not(), but even there it's usually better to just use a class.