Can section:hover{} impact another HTML element?

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I know when in your CSS you write section:hover {} all of the things inside the curly brackets will apply to the "section"

Is there a way to impact a different part of your html like for example if I wanted a text to disappear maybe I would write "(text) display:0;"

If it is possible to have a different element be impacted I would like to know how you get that done.

Thanks. 
Matt

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Posted 24-Oct-19 6:32am

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Updated 24-Oct-19 6:47am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2019-10-24T06:47:00

It depends on how the other element is related to the section.

If it's a descendant element, you can write:

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section:hover your-element-selector { display: none; }

If it's a sibling element which follows the section, you can write:

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section:hover ~ your-element-selector { display: none; }

If it's somewhere else in the document, then you'll have to use Javascript.

Descendant combinator - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN[^]
General sibling combinator - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN[^]