prevent a pseudo element from triggering hover?
The following css does the trick for modern browsers (not IE10-): .b:after { pointer-events: none; } pointer-events: none allows elements to not receive hover/click events. See this fiddle. Caution pointer-events support for non-SVG elements is in a relative early state. developer.mozilla.org gives you the following warning: The use of pointer-events in CSS for non-SVG elements … Read more