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Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You

Danny has several ideas for how we could use :near(), a proposed pseudo-class that detects when the pointer is near an element. Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

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