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Nick Jones

Product-Focused CTO, Founder,
Software Engineer, Indie Hacker

CSS Boolean Selectors

Just a short one.

Have you been in the situation where you’d like to be able to enable a style only when both classes are defined for an element? For example:

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<ul>
  <li class="level-0">Home</li>
  <li class="level-0">Electronics</li>
  <li class="level-1">Televisual Boxes</li>
  <li class="level-1 over">Kettles</li>
  <li class="level-0">Furniture</li>
  <li class="level-0">Clearance</li>
</ul>

We’ll ignore the fact that we could have used the :hover pseudo-class, and that we could have used an additional <ul></ul> to define the level-1 items.

Logical AND (&&) We can invoke a specific over CSS class on only the level-1 items with the following:

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li.level-1.over {
  background-color: red;
}

Keeping adding additional class by chaining with the .className syntax.

Logical OR (||) Of course, to OR the classes you simply comma-separate them:

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li.class1,
li.class2 {
  background-color: green;
}

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2144751/combining-two-or-more-css-selectors-with-a-boolean-condition