css3 nth of type restricted to class

technopeasant picture technopeasant · Jun 6, 2012 · Viewed 76.9k times · Source

Is there any way to limit css3's nth-of-type to a class? I've got a dynamic number of section elements with different classes designating their layout needs. I'd like to grab every 3rd .module, but it seems that nth-of-type looks up classes element type and then calculates the type. Instead I'd like to limit it to only .modules.

Thanks!

JSFiddle to demonstrate: http://jsfiddle.net/danielredwood/e2BAq/1/

HTML:

<section class="featured video">
    <h1>VIDEO</h1>
</section>
<section class="featured module">
    <h1>NOT A VIDEO</h1>
</section>
<section class="featured module">
    <h1>NOT A VIDEO</h1>
</section>
<section class="featured module">
    <h1>NOT A VIDEO (3)</h1>
</section>
<section class="featured module">
    <h1>NOT A VIDEO</h1>
</section>
<section class="featured module">
    <h1>NOT A VIDEO</h1>
</section>
<section class="featured module">
    <h1>NOT A VIDEO (6)</h1>
</section>

​CSS:

.featured {
  width:31%;
  margin:0 0 20px 0;
  padding:0 3.5% 2em 0;
  float:left;
  background:#ccc;
}
  .featured.module:nth-of-type(3n+3) {
    padding-right:0;
    background:red;
  }
  .featured.video {
    width:auto;
    padding:0 0 2em 0;
    float:none;
  }​

Answer

r0skar picture r0skar · Jun 7, 2012

Unfortunately, there is no way (at least none I know of) to select nth-of-type of a class, since nth-of-class doesnt exist. You will probably have to add a new class to every third .module manually.