Add new information about recent CSS inheritance changes with CSS selection and highlight pseudo-classes

[dbarabashh]

Fix #36458

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Preview URLs (6 pages)

• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::grammar-error
• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::highlight
• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::selection
• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::spelling-error
• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::target-text
• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Pseudo-elements

External URLs (1)

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Pseudo-elements
Title: Pseudo-elements

• https://developer.chrome.com/blog/selection-styling (1 time) (Note! This may be a new URL 👀)

(comment last updated: 2025-08-25 07:28:36)

[chrisdavidmills]

@dbarabashh thanks for the contribution! I've added some thoughts on how I think this could be handled.

[dbarabashh]

I made some changes and updated the text, but I have a feeling its a bit hard to understand. Considering less experienced developers, this explanation might be too complex. What do you think?

/cc @chrisdavidmills

[chrisdavidmills]

@dbarabashh It's getting there. A couple more comments for you.

I also wondered if you could link to this section from all the pseudo-element reference pages that follow this inheritance model?

[chrisdavidmills]

@dbarabashh thanks for your further work on this. The content is all there now, I think, I just had some suggestions on wording and ordering for you to look through. The bigger issue really is that the main explainer content is on the wrong page. I've included comments to help you put it on the right page, in the right place.

Thanks again.

[bsmth]

Hi @dbarabashh - there's some review comments above if you'd like to come back to this. Have you addressed everything in recent commits? Thanks a lot!

[chrisdavidmills]

Cool, let's get this in. I've just made a small tweak to break up a long sentence.