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Hi dear students please answers all questions as follows:-
1- Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements
2-Box shadows and text Shadows
3-what are Combinators and define it’s all types.

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#2

Pseuod-Classes and Pseudo-Elements:
Pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements are selectosr in CSS that allows you to target and style elements based on certain states or specific parts of an element’s structure. Here’s an explanation of each:

  1. Pseudo-Classes: Pseudo-classes target elements based on their state or position in the document tree. They are denoted by a colon “:” followed by the pseudo-class name. Some commonly used pseudo-classes include:

    :hover: Matches when an element is being hovered over by the mouse cursor.
    :active: Matches when an element is being activated, such as when a button is being clicked.
    :focus: Matches when an element has received focus, such as when an input field is selected.
    :nth-child(n): Matches elements that are the nth child of their parent.
    :first-child, :last-child: Matches the first or last child element of their parent, respectively.

  2. Pseudo-Elements: Pseudo-elements target and style specific parts of an element’s content. They are denoted by two colons “::” followed by the pseudo-element name. Some commonly used pseudo-elements include:

    ::before: Inserts content before the selected element.
    ::after: Inserts content after the selected element.
    ::first-letter: Targets the first letter of a block-level element.
    ::first-line: Targest the first line of a block-level element.

Box Shadows and Text Shadows:
Box shadows and text shadows are CSS properties that allow you to add shadow effects to elements. Here’s a brief explanation of each:

Box Shadows: The box-shadow property adds a shadow effect to the entire box (including its border and content). It takes values for horizontal offset, vertical offset, blur radius, spread distance, and color. For example:

css {
box-shadow: 2px 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);

This applies a box shadow with a horizontal offset of 2 pixels, vertical offset of 2 pixels, blur radius of 4 pixels, and color with 40% opacity.

  1. Text Shadows: The text-shadow property adds a shadow effect to the text within an element. It takes values for horizontal offset, vertical offset, blur radius, and color. For example:

    css
    { text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);

    This applies a text shadow with a horizontal offset of 1 pixel, vertical offset of 1 pixel, blur radius of 2 pixels, and color with 80% opacity.

Combinators:
CSS combinators are used to select elements based on their relationship to other elements in the HTML document tree. There are four types of combinators:

Descendant combinator (space): It selects elements that are descendants of a specific element. For example:

css css
.container p {
/* Selects all

elements that are descendants of elements with the class “container” */
}

  1. Child combinator (>): It selects elements that are direct children of a specific element. For example:

    css coed
    .container > p {
    /* Selects all

    elements that are direct children of elements with the class “container” */
    }

  2. Adjcaent sibling combinator (+): It selects an element that is the next sibling immediately following another specific element. For example:

    css
    h1 + p {
    /* Selects the

    element that directly follows an

  3. General sibling combinator (~): It selects elements that are siblings of a specific element. For example:

css

h1 ~ p {
/* Selects all

elements that are siblings of an

element */
}

These combintaors provide a way to target and style specific elements based on their relationship to other elements in the document tree.

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#3
  1. Pseudo classes : - we denoted by :
    Pseudo classes :- we denoted by::
    2)Box-shadow : x , y ,blur ,spread,color;
    ex:-box-shadow:2px 2px 5px 5px red

Text-Shadow : x, y, blur, color;
text-shadow :2px 2px 3px red;
3)Combinators :- 1.descendent selector ()
2.child selector (>)
3.adjacent sibling selector (+)
4.general sibling selector(~)

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#4

Ans 1. pseudo-element is used to style specified parts of an element.
like p::first-line {
color: #ff0000;
font-sixe: 20 px;
}
same with Pseudo-Classes, we class name insteed of element.

Ans2: Box shadows is for make shadow effect around the box.
ex… p {
box-shadow: 10px 10px 8px 10px #888888; //parameters are x,y,spread,blur, color
}
Text shadows is for make shadow effect around the text or element. but it has no spread option.
ex… p {
box-shadow: 10px 10px 10px #888888; //parameters are x,y,blur, color;
}

Ans3 Combinator are used to select perticular element. these are 5 types
nth child(nth child selector)

  • (adjecent sibling)
    ~(I know its use but don’t know name)
    space(descendent)
    > (Child)
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#5 
1. Psuedo class:- A selector that specifies a special state of selected elements. 
E.g :- button:hover {
color:blue;
}  
Psuedo elements:- A selector used for targeting an extra element without adding more Html elements.
e.g  h1:: before {
content: " demo data";

2. Box Shadow is used for giving shadow to a box whereas text shadow is used for giving shadow to a text. Only difference is that in box shadow we can add how much area we want to spread the shadow whereas in text shadow it can be done. 
code format : vertical  horizontal  blur spread(only for box shadow) #color

3. Combinators: Basically used for defining the relation between selectors. There are four combinators.
descendant selector (main section)
child selector (main>section)
adjacent sibling selector (main + section) 
general sibling selector(main ~ section) 
}
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#6

Pseudo class is what is created by css predefined property to check the functionality of websites( :slight_smile:
Pesudo element is particularly for attributes and element (::slight_smile:

Box shadows to give the outside margin shadows x,y,blur,spread,color
Text shadow to give colour for text like x,y,blur,color
Combinators are like giving styles for child elements with
Descendent selector
Child selector
Adjacent sibling selector
General sibling selector

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#7

pseudo class- it is used to define special state of element.
pseudo element- before:: pseudo element: after
box shadow- is used to aplly one or more shadow to an element
text shadow- it used to add shadow to text
combinator- expalin the relation btwn selector

  1. genearl sibling selector
  2. adjacent
  3. desecendent
  4. child
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#8

1.pseudo class are used to style the element when mouse over it.
2.pseudo elements are used to style specific elements.
3.box showdow used to style one or more shadow to the element.
4.text shadow for the text.
5.combinators is used to style parent,child and sibiling.
descendant selector (space)
child selector (>)
adjacent sibling selector (+)
general sibling selector (~)

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#9

well done :blush: :+1:t2: :+1:t2:

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