CSS: Prevent parent element getting :active pseudoclass when child element is clicked

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When you click the button, you see that :active pseudoclass is triggered for the parent div. Is ther

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CSS pseudo-elements are incredibly useful -- they allow us to create CSS triangles for tooltips and perform a number of other simple tasks while preventing the need for additional HTML elements. To this point, these pseudo-element CSS properties have been unreachable by JavaScript but now there's a method for getting them!

Check this:

http://davidwalsh.name/pseudo-element

http://davidwalsh.name/ways-css-javascript-interact