:past

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

The :past CSS pseudo-class selector is a time-dimensional pseudo-class that will match for any element which appears entirely before an element that matches :current. For example in a video with captions which are being displayed by WebVTT.

css
:past(p, span) { display: none; } 

Syntax

css
:past { /* ... */ } 

Examples

CSS

css
:past(p, span) { display: none; } 

HTML

html
<video controls preload="metadata"> <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> <source src="video.webm" type="video/webm" /> <track label="English" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" src="subtitles.vtt" default /> </video> 

WebVTT

WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:03.500 --> 00:00:05.000 This is the first caption 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.000 This is the second caption 3 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:19.000 This is the third caption 

Specifications

Specification
Selectors Level 4
# the-past-pseudo

Browser compatibility

See also