> On Aug 12, 2016, at 9:42 PM, Chris Rockwell <ch...@chrisrockwell.com> wrote:
>
> Consider a use-case in which your page has a long list of
> anchors (imagine a sticky sidebar which scrolls with the user). The goal
> (in my contrived scenario) would be to gray out the anchor which links to
> the targeted element.
>
> Instead of styling each anchor in the sidebar with it's own rule e.g.
> a[href="target1"] {}
> a[href="target2"] {}
>
> I think the question is, can you do something like this:
> a[href=:target] { color: lightgray; }
That would indeed by interesting, a bit limited perhaps. Basically styling the
originating link – it is bit similar to the :visited pseudo-class, though. I
don’t remember having seen proposals covering this - and I don’t see anything
like that Selectors4 [*].
Karl replied
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 9:50 PM, Karl DeSaulniers <k...@designdrumm.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, looks like it..
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:target
No that is not it at all. The :target pseudo class styles the target of the
link, IOW, the destination. What the OP wants is styling the originating link.
Philippe
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