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Why does the background-color of .a does not change when I hover? .b?

CSS

.a {
    color: red;
}

.b {
    color: orange;
}

.b:hover .a {
    background-color: blue;
}

HTML

<div id="wrap">
    <div class="a">AAAA
    <div class ="b">BBBB</div>
    </div>
</div>

http://jsfiddle.net/2NEgt/323/

A.B
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user3546854
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    possible duplicate of [Is there a CSS parent selector?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1014861/is-there-a-css-parent-selector) – Paulie_D Dec 04 '14 at 12:52

4 Answers4

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Because .a is not descendent or comes after/inside of .b which is condition to work for it

for example if you inverse it, since .b is descendent of .a, it will work

.a:hover .b {
    background-color: blue;
}
A.B
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You are trying to select .a when it's a child of .b in a hover state. This could never happen .a is the parent of .b.

Andrei Nemes
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Actually you are trying to change background of parent on child hover this would not possible as it's parent of b if you change b's background color on hover of a then it will work 

.a:hover .b {
    background-color: blue;
}

it's here http://jsfiddle.net/u7tYE/

nikita
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There is an error in your HTML also .a is not descendent

HTML:

<div id="wrap"> <div class="a">AAAA</div> <div class ="b">BBBB</div> </div>

CSS:

.a {
    color: red;
}
.b {
    color: orange;
}
.b:hover, .a:hover  {
  background-color: blue;

}

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  • There is no html error. It may be not the nicest way to write the html, but its ok to do it this way. – Der Vampyr Dec 04 '14 at 12:47
  • @DerVampyr Because of the structure the CSS didn't work correctly in the fiddle link that he mentioned in the question. I updated my answer. – RandomUser Dec 04 '14 at 12:49
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    He don´t want both single elements blue. He want to hover a child element of ``.a`` (in this case `.b`) and therefore make ``.a`` blue – Der Vampyr Dec 04 '14 at 12:56