Unable to find ::before css selector element in selenium webdriver

Question

I want to test for checkbox checked or unchecked condition.

This is the html code for checkbox checked

<div classs="input-control checkbox">
<span class="check">
::before
</span>
</div>

::before is css selector.

when i hoverover to checkbox, it shows webelement as span.check::before

but

driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("span.check::before"));

throws element not found exception.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

In my case, I have removed the pseudo-element ::before from the CSS selector as seen below and it works

Instead of:

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span.check::before"))).build().perform();

I gave:

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span.check"))).build().perform();

Using pseudo-elements in the selector is actually not supposed to work as mentioned here and here.