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title: AnimationEvent.pseudoElement
slug: Web/API/AnimationEvent/pseudoElement
page-type: web-api-instance-property
browser-compat: api.AnimationEvent.pseudoElement

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{{APIRef("Web Animations API")}}

Summary

The AnimationEvent.pseudoElement read-only property is a string, starting with '::', containing the name of the pseudo-element the animation runs on. If the animation doesn't run on a pseudo-element but on the element, an empty string: ''.

Value

A string, starting with '::', containing the name of the pseudo-element the animation runs on.

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• Chromium Issue 437132

• Using CSS animations

• Animation-related CSS properties and at-rules: {{cssxref("animation")}}, {{cssxref("animation-delay")}}, {{cssxref("animation-direction")}}, {{cssxref("animation-duration")}}, {{cssxref("animation-fill-mode")}}, {{cssxref("animation-iteration-count")}}, {{cssxref("animation-name")}}, {{cssxref("animation-play-state")}}, {{cssxref("animation-timing-function")}}, {{cssxref("@keyframes")}}.

• The {{domxref("AnimationEvent")}} interface it belongs to.