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Idered / cssParentSelector

CSS4 parent selector based on jQuery
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[DEPRECATED]

What is cssParentSelector

cssParentSelector is a polyfill based on jQuery that allows you to use parent selector in CSS.

License

Released under MIT and GPL licenses.

Installation

Just attach this plugin to your code and that's all.

<script src="https://github.com/Idered/cssParentSelector/raw/master/jQuery.cssParentSelector.js"></script>

Usage

parent! target > child:state

Quick info about parent selector in CSS4

! - determines subject of selector according to CSS4 reference

E > F - selects an F element, child of E

E! > F - selects an E element, parent of F

Parent

Any vaild selector is okey, id, class, even like this one: input[type=checkbox]

Target

This is optional, after we've got PARENT of our CHILD selector, we look for this TARGET element within PARENT.

Child

Based on this, we select PARENT element.

State

As for now plugin supports:

Sample

  <div id="container">
    <p>
      <label>Change value and click somewhere</label>
      <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Value" class="dotted">
      <span class="message">Yay, you've changed value.</span>
    </p>

    <p class="custom">
      <input type="checkbox" name="name" placeholder="Value" class="dashed">
      <span class="message">Yay, you've checked.</span>
    </p>

    <p>
      Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
      tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
      <a href="#" class="hide-parent">&#x2716;</a>
    </p>
  </div>
/* Select paragraph parent of input or a*/
p! > input, p! > a { border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px 5px; }

/* Select any parent of input or a*/
*! > input, p! > a { background: #fafafa; }

/* Select any parent with class of input */
*.custom! > input { background: #f5f5f5; }

/* Select any parent with class of input */
#container! > p { background: #eee; }

/* Select any parent of input with class */
*! > input.dotted { border-style: dotted; }
*! > input.dashed { border-style: dashed; }=

/* En empty declaration, just for tests */
*! > p {

}

/* Hide an message box */
.hide-parent { float: right; }
p! > .hide-parent:click { display: none; /* Comment inside declaration */ }=

/* Select any parent of input which value was changed */
p! > input:changed { background: #EEDC94; }

/* Select label within parent of focused text input */
p! label > input[type=text]:focus{ display: block; }

/* Select element with definied class within parent of changed/checked text/checkbox input */
p! .message > input[type=text]:changed,
p! .message > input[type=checkbox]:checked {
    display: inline;
}

p! span:first-child> input { display: block; }
p:after! > input {
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  height: 1px;
  background-color: #111;
}

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