Is it possible to have a CSS within a CSS

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I am working on a site and I'm curios on the functionality of cascade style sheets. I have an image and I want other elements to appear on it when the user hovers.
e.g. A plain image, when user hovers over it I want to display two buttons on it

CSS

.image
    {
    background image: url;
    }

.image:hover
    {
    .buttonNext
        {
        backgroun-image: url;
        margin: 5px;
        }

    .buttonPrevious
        {
        backgroun-image: url;
        margin: 10px;
        }
    }

Is this even possible or should I look into CSS nesting and grouping?

Posted 30-May-13 11:29am

Eli Skywalker

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-05-30T12:03:00

No, this is not how CSS is designed.

Yes, they are cascade, but not in this sense. CSS styles are put just in a flat single-level list.

"Cascadeness" comes from the hierarchy of elements in HTML, their parent-child relationship, not CSS. One basic principle is this: "Parent inheritance: If a property is not specified, it will be inherited from a parent element". Can you see how it cascades due to this fact? You can find other detail on style priority scheme here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS#CSS_Priority_scheme_.28highest_to_lowest.29[^].

—SA