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+<h1>Using Parent Selectors in CSS</h1>
+<p>2018-12-19</p>
+<p>I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by <a href="https://twitter.com/innovati/status/1068998114491678720">Tommy Hodgins</a> on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the <code>parent</code> selector instantly peaked my interest.</p>
+<p>Being able to target an element's parent always becomes a minor annoyance (since vanilla CSS does not support it) - so you always end up having to do something a little ugly like:</p>
+<pre><code>var el = document.getElementById('custom-div');
+var parent = el.closest(selectors);
+</code></pre>
+<p>And then add any custom styling to the parent element directly in JavaScript - or toggle a class which opens a whole other can of worms.</p>
+<h2>Save the day with <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsincss-parent-selector">jsincss-parent-selector</a> and <a href="https://github.com/tomhodgins/qaffeine">qaffeine</a></h2>
+<p>By using the <code>jsincss-parent-selector</code> and <code>qaffeine</code> plugins we can target an element's parent in CSS without breaking a sweat. Let's break it down:</p>
+<h3>Import the packages</h3>
+<pre><code>npm install jsincss-parent-selector qaffeine
+</code></pre>
+<h3>HTML (ex. index.html)</h3>
+<p>Now we add our very simple HTML skeleton:</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;!doctype html&gt;
+&lt;html&gt;
+ &lt;head&gt;
+ &lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;output.css&quot;&gt;
+ &lt;/head&gt;
+ &lt;body&gt;
+ &lt;header&gt;
+ &lt;main&gt;
+ &lt;h2&gt;This is a header&lt;/h2&gt;
+ &lt;/main&gt;
+ &lt;/header&gt;
+ &lt;/body&gt;
+ &lt;script src=output.js&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
+&lt;/html&gt;
+</code></pre>
+<h3>JavaScript (ex. input.js)</h3>
+<pre><code>const qaffeine = require('qaffeine')
+const parent = require('jsincss-parent-selector')
+
+qaffeine(
+{
+ stylesheet: {},
+ rules: {
+ parent
+ }
+},
+'input.css',
+'output.js',
+'output.css'
+)
+</code></pre>
+<h3>CSS (ex. input.css)</h3>
+<pre><code>header {
+ display: block;
+}
+main[--js-parent] {
+ background: blue;
+}
+</code></pre>
+<p>Then simply run <code>node</code> against your <code>js</code> file. That's it! I would also suggest checking out Tommy's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG8cLe7VbW0">video covering this topic</a> if you prefer to follow along.</p>
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