{"id":58046,"date":"2025-05-19T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T12:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/?p=57110"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:16:48","slug":"element-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/element-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Element states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you style the elements on your page, you can create three substyles for the element. These substyles are known as <strong>states<\/strong> or <strong>pseudo-classes<\/strong>. These states are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Hover<\/strong>: How the element appears when visitors mouse over it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Focus<\/strong>: How the element appears when visitors focus on it, usually by clicking on it or tabbing to it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Active<\/strong>: How the element appears when the visitor is engaging with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Tabs have an extra state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Selected<\/strong>: How the element appears as it is being displayed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add a state to an element<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To add a state<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open the Elementor Editor.<br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57111\" style=\"width: 680px;\" src=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select an element.<br>The options appear in the panel.<br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57112\" style=\"width: 180px;\" src=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the panel, click the <strong>Style<\/strong> tab.<br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57125\" style=\"width: 180px;\" src=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Select-the-class.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the<strong> Classes<\/strong> field, locate the class you want to edit.<br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57126\" style=\"width: 180px;\" src=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/click-the-ellipses.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the ellipses.<br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57127\" style=\"width: 180px;\" src=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Select-hover.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the state you want to edit.<br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57128\" style=\"width: 180px;\" src=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-chsoen-state.png\" alt=\"\"><br>Notice the state appears in the CSS classes field and is colored green. This indicates that you are editing the element in this state. If you edit a local class, the class will be pink instead of green.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use the Style options to set how the element will appear in the selected state.<br>For details about the different Style options, see the individual articles on style options:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/style-tab-layout\">Layout<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/style-tab-spacing\">Spacing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/style-tab-size\">Size<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/style-tab-position\">Position<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/style-tab-typography\">Typography<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/style-tab-background\">Background<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/style-tab-border\">Border<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/style-tab-effects\">Effects<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you style the elements on your page, you can create three substyles for the element. These substyles are known as states or pseudo-classes. These states are: Tabs have an extra state: Add a state to an element To add a state:&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_elementor_kustomer_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[1513],"class_list":["post-58046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-v4"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Element states | Elementor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn everything about Element states in this article from Elementor&#039;s Knowledge Base. 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