Re: How is the hover pseudo-class translated into the DOM?

It's the other way around. pseudo-element are not visible to the DOM.
pseudo-classes styles are applied on the fly, and getComputedStyle
will retrieve the styles which are applied to the element when
getComputedStyle is called.

2007/3/26, Yansky <thegooddale@gmail.com>:
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> But doesn't getComputedStyle(...) only work for pseudo-elements; not
> pseudo-classes?
>
> João Eiras wrote:
> > Na , Yansky <thegooddale@gmail.com> escreveu:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi, I was wondering about the :hover pseudo-class in style rules and
> >> how that translates into the DOM. Is it translated into the browser
> >> as a Javascript-type mouseover event? Would it be possible to read
> >> the style rules set to the hover pseudo-class via onmouseover?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Yansky.
> >
> > mouseover/mouseout are fired if the mouse is moved either over a child
> > of the target or another node in the document tree, so you need to
> > check if the element to where the mouse is going is a descendant of
> > the previous node. Like, onmouseover, check that target is a
> > descendant of relatedTarget.
> > Then, since :hover styles are applied dynamically, without any script
> > intervention, you can read the computed styles for some element in the
> > DOM, using getComputedStyle(...)
> >
> >
> >
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