• CSS selectors allows to point to elements on the page to style them
• we have dozens of pseudo classes available to style element
• :target allows us to do lightboxes without JavaScript
• :not reverses the meaning of the symbol selector inside it
• :not([class]) allows you to style elements without classes, without specificity wars
• adding the letter i to attribute selectors allow you select them without case sensitively
• there is nothing new is CSS selectors. Why? As devs we are not asking for them.
• developers have started styling everything with class selectors
• we’ve abandoned HTML semantics
• As developers, we have started put a bird on it people

Put a class on it

-developers

• our over-reliance on classes is modifying the spec
• :local-link is not supported
• the reference combinator is not supported
• both of these cool features have been dropped the selector spec
• the :has selector lives but comes with fine print, it only works in JavaScript
• decisions are being made without the developers voice (not to say wrong, just our voice is absence)
• The labotomised owl selector, * + *, has zero specificity. It makes it easy to override it.
• Quantity selectors allow us to code defensively against changes in the content structure within a CMS
• demand the selectors we deserve in future browsers