Martijn Cuppens (the same fella with the very weird div!) has some more irresistible CSS trickery. Three of the examples are about making a child element trigger an event on a parent element (almost like the magic that is :focus-within).

Here’s how I reasoned it out to myself:

  1. You know how if you display: hidden; an element, even if you display: block; a child, it doesn’t matter — it’s hidden because its parent is hidden.
  2. The same is not true for visibility: hidden;. Children will be hidden because visibility inherits, but if you visibility: visible; them, they become visible again.
  3. That’s what is happening here with pointer-events. If you pointer-events: none; on a parent and then pointer-events: auto; on a child, you’re re-enabling pointer events. Then a :hover on a parent will be triggered (for example), when hoving the child, but nowhere else inside the parent.

And don’t miss pointer-events: visiblePainted; 😳

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